A Film with Me in It details

A Film with Me in It
Format: 15 DVD
Starring: Keith Allen, David Doherty, Mark Doherty, Amy Huberman, Neil Jordan, Dylan Moran, Aisling O'Sullivan, Laura Way
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller - General
Studio: ELEMENT PICTURES
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A Film with Me in It
15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 1 hour 29 minutes
Rental release: 10 Oct 2011
Main languages: English
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  • Nice try, no cigar

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By FCAhound (71 reviews) from London & Norfolk , 26 Feb 2012

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    A first script, shot in 20 days on a limited budget is never likely to make the Oscar shortlist, and this film is no rule breaker in that respect.

    But it is a bravely black comedy that is genuinely, startlingly black while being doggedly, dourly comedic, too. Dylan Moran is as artfully, fumblingly good as he is in everything he does. The rest of the cast also do very good jobs. The script is so full of twists that any attempt to describe it would constitute a spoiler....

    So it's not time wasted by any means. As long as you don't confuse comedy with laugh-a -minute fun.
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  • Black Books it ain't

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By Rankintrevor (36 reviews) , 08 Jan 2013
    Ugly bloke with no money, no personality, no prospects, cares for his vegetable brother but has a beautiful, younger girlfriend who he also lies to and steals from while he spends his waking hours with his gormless down and out drunken friend, when not ducking from doing anything around the flat. Well if you believe that starting scenario, this is your film. How glad I was of the fast forward to the very predictable end.
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  • Black, Black Humour

    Rated - 3.5 stars  
    By swukker (35 reviews) from Crediton , 06 Jun 2012

    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide

    i was recommended this film but otherwise approached it with no foreknowledge. In a nutshell, two Irish slackers, living a downbeat life of failure, become victims of an unlikely series of incidents, none of which are their fault but which leave them with a snowballing problem which they solve in a rather unlikely way.

    The tone of the whole film seems to have been lifted from Eraserhead, never has Ireland seemed so unattractively depressing. The humour is blacker than black (er...Bernard Black? As Dylan Moran's character is almost indistinguishable from his earlier role) but still manages to raise regular laughs. My only real complaint, that almost ruined the film for me, was the ending. I was waiting for a self-referential twist with all the victims of fate alive and acting the film we had just seen. Instead, we get a bit of irony and an impression that, in the long run, nothing has changed that much.
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  • Nice try, no cigar

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By FCAhound (71 reviews) from London & Norfolk , 26 Feb 2012
    A first script, shot in 20 days on a limited budget is never likely to make the Oscar shortlist, and this film is no rule breaker in that respect.

    But it is a bravely black comedy that is genuinely, startlingly black while being doggedly, dourly comedic, too. Dylan Moran is as artfully, fumblingly good as he is in everything he does. The rest of the cast also do very good jobs. The script is so full of twists that any attempt to describe it would constitute a spoiler....

    So it's not time wasted by any means. As long as you don't confuse comedy with laugh-a -minute fun.
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  • A bit like korma, not bad but u would have prefered something with more spice

    Rated - 2.5 stars  
    By Robbo214 (8 reviews) , 08 Dec 2011
    Not too bad, nothing to jump up and down and shout about just an ok film, unfortunatly i watched the trailer first on youtube which contained all the good bits
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  • watch this now!

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By WashingtonFierce (6 reviews) from Glasgow , 09 Nov 2011
    This is an amazing film. Get it now.

    Don't know what I was expecting but this wasn't it.

    Brilliantly acted, scripted, shot. Beautiful.

    I laughed, cringed and stared in utter disbelief all the way through.
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