Christie Malry's Own Double Entry
2000
Nick Moran stars in this drama as Christie Malry, a lowly bank worker who indulges in extreme fantasies of sex and violence to escape his humdrum life of a job he hates and having to care for his dying mother. Whilst taking an evening class, Christie learns the principles of double-entry bookkeeping and adopts the theory that .. Read more
| Starring | Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield, Marcello Mazzarella |
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| Director | Paul Tickell |
| Genres | Drama |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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Beset by numerous distribution problems since its completion, director Paul Tickell's ambitious adaptation of BS Johnson's 1973 novel racks up more debits than credits. On the plus side, Shirley Anne Field and Kate Ashfield impress as the dying mother and unsuspecting girlfriend of book-keeper Christie Malry (played by Lock, Stock's Nick Moran). It's his twisted world view that prompts him to commit increasingly deadly acts of subversion, which he tallies in a ledger detailing his notional fortune. However, the asides on the lethargy and cynicism of the modern world are lost within the flashy visuals and the parallel storyline that features the 15th-century monastic mathematician Pacioli (who first recorded the double-entry method) and his friend, Leonardo da Vinci.
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Adapted from the angry novel by experimental novelist BS Johnson, this is an ambitious attempt to capture on film a... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Book Keeping will never be the same.
Remarkable, a Billy Liar for the modern era. This is one of the most stunning debuts from a British Director in years.
Ever wanted to get even with those who endeavour to get in your way, well Christy does and whats more he keeps an account of anyone who dares.
Superbly performed by Moran, Stulke, and Ashfield the film also includes a cracking sound-track from Luke Haines.
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Christie Malry's Own Goal
I guess a cross between 'Billy Liar' and 'Fight Club' would be the best way to describe this, although not as good. The general storyline is good, but the whole Da Vinci thing tended to confuse matters somewhat and i felt that the film would have been a lot better without it. Worth a look.
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Make that a debit
What an incredibly odd film. It starts off well with the concept that life requires a balance, so that for every negative happening there should be a positive happening. The same principle of double accounting book keeping. This is how Christie Malry begins to live life - extracting a negative / positive happening to counterbalance whatever event happened to him. So it was a shame the film ended up all political and a bit...well..crazy really. A path treaded before with Fight Club. The acting by Nick Moran and Neil Stuke (he from Game On) are commendable but they weren't really given much to play with. The film is spliced with a backdrop story about Leornado Da Vinci which I suppose is to counterbalance Christie Malry's own story so that the film itself is 'balanced'. Not one to recommend unless you are into films that are far from contemporary.
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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Quite Bizarre!
This was a very strange movie and you often couldn't tell the difference from Christie's warped mind or the actual plot of the movie!
However it helped my get my head around Double Entry (I've just started a bookkeeping course)!!!! -
Christie Malry's Own Goal
I guess a cross between 'Billy Liar' and 'Fight Club' would be the best way to describe this, although not as good. The general storyline is good, but the whole Da Vinci thing tended to confuse matters somewhat and i felt that the film would have been a lot better without it. Worth a look.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Book Keeping will never be the same.
Remarkable, a Billy Liar for the modern era. This is one of the most stunning debuts from a British Director in years.
Ever wanted to get even with those who endeavour to get in your way, well Christy does and whats more he keeps an account of anyone who dares.
Superbly performed by Moran, Stulke, and Ashfield the film also includes a cracking sound-track from Luke Haines.
An absolute must. -
Christie Malry's Own Goal
I guess a cross between 'Billy Liar' and 'Fight Club' would be the best way to describe this, although not as good. The general storyline is good, but the whole Da Vinci thing tended to confuse matters somewhat and i felt that the film would have been a lot better without it. Worth a look.
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Make that a debit
What an incredibly odd film. It starts off well with the concept that life requires a balance, so that for every negative happening there should be a positive happening. The same principle of double accounting book keeping. This is how Christie Malry begins to live life - extracting a negative / positive happening to counterbalance whatever event happened to him. So it was a shame the film ended up all political and a bit...well..crazy really. A path treaded before with Fight Club. The acting by Nick Moran and Neil Stuke (he from Game On) are commendable but they weren't really given much to play with. The film is spliced with a backdrop story about Leornado Da Vinci which I suppose is to counterbalance Christie Malry's own story so that the film itself is 'balanced'. Not one to recommend unless you are into films that are far from contemporary.
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Sh*te club
Christite Malry is the sort of film an angry adolescent would make: It is filled with fantasies of killing those in authority and having sex with the women in short skirts. The characters are poorly drawn and feel completely unreal, as do the settings. It feels like one long clichéd dream sequence and as a result sustains little to no interest. The film also suffers from huge budgetary restrictions and consequently the whole thing looks cheap and nasty.
Nick Moran delivers a particularly stilted performance with little to no depth and the rest of the cast are left to fumble around with their unrealistic two-dimensional personalties. This film is trying to be cutting-edge and provoking but is instead a lame, limp-wristed effort to make a British "Fight Club".
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Totally in touch
The superficiality of the characters is obviously deliberate, and very well realised. It is because of these people and their attitudes that Moran's character is driven to do what he does. Moran is hilarious.
The special effects are bad yes, but this works well. When the bridge is burning at the end, it is as though a James Bond opening credits sequence is spilling over into the film.
The greatest achievement of this movie is its foresight. Every act of anarchy perpetrated by Moran is blamed on terrorists. Iraq is bombed by the UK and USA. Another incident is blamed on the IRA just because there happens to be an Irish person nearby.
There's also a great bit of unobtrusive moral commentary when Moran is talking to his dead mum and his best friend in the nightclub.
The only problem is the C16th Italy storyline. It should have been cut, and that's the end of it. Otherwise, this would be a five-star film. -
Brave indie effort at waking UK film up.
Paul Tickle is indeed a lonely voice in the world of British film - which has largely slipped into its self induced 'Notting Hill' coma. That famous track by the Scissor Sisters says it all "comfortably numb".
Of course the heretics who dare speak out in public against the holy word of Richard Curtis are often met with a hail of abuse and labelled 'elitist snobs'.
Tickle's film is a valiant attempt to fly in the face of all this but I fear the odds are stacked against him (as the film's miniscule straight to video release and marketing budget shows).
There is plenty to criticise in this film (not least the 16th century 'flashbacks' which seem rather indulgent and jarring). However this is mostly a bracing and honest piece of film making that commits that unpardonable modern day offence - 'it makes you think'. -
Almost there...
This is not a terrible film by any means but it could have been so much better. The basic idea of the film is intriguing - someone applies the rules of double entry book-keeping to daily life and seeks to balance the books by taking out equal retribution (credit) for each wrong done to them (debit). If only the director had stuck to this simple premise this could have been a tight and intriguing film, as it is, an irrelevant sub-plot featuring Leonardo Da Vinci and a token love interest draw attention away from the central character and his obsessive mission. The film is loose and rambling to capture when it should be a tightly wound and precise.
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Not as good as it could have been
This film suffers from a bit of a lack of dicipline. The concept is fantastic (especially if you work in accounts - it's every quiet clerk's fantasies) but the film doesn't quite deliver on it's promise -it's just a bit too unstructured - a bit too vague.
Ultimately, it's ok but nothing to actually rave about. Could have been better. -
Quite Bizarre!
This was a very strange movie and you often couldn't tell the difference from Christie's warped mind or the actual plot of the movie!
However it helped my get my head around Double Entry (I've just started a bookkeeping course)!!!! -
Customer Review
a poor film by any standards. but given the brilliance of the source material (b s johnson's classic novel), i'd say this dismal adaptation is one of the biggest missed opportunities in modern cinema.
gone is the wit and verve of the book. instead, christie is presented as a monosyllabic, joyless misanthrope.
i dedicate the one star i am obliged to award this dvd to the underside of the disc itself, which was nice and clean, and apparently unsullied by the horrors digitally encoded within.
Critics' reviews (2)
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Beset by numerous distribution problems since its completion, director Paul Tickell's ambitious adaptation of BS Johnson's 1973 novel racks up more debits than credits. On the plus side, Shirley Anne Field and Kate Ashfield impress as the dying mother and unsuspecting girlfriend of book-keeper Christie Malry (played by Lock, Stock's Nick Moran). It's his twisted world view that prompts him to commit increasingly deadly acts of subversion, which he tallies in a ledger detailing his notional fortune. However, the asides on the lethargy and cynicism of the modern world are lost within the flashy visuals and the parallel storyline that features the 15th-century monastic mathematician Pacioli (who first recorded the double-entry method) and his friend, Leonardo da Vinci.
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Adapted from the angry novel by experimental novelist BS Johnson, this is an ambitious attempt to capture on film a... read more on Time Out
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Christie Malry's Own Double Entry
Nick Moran stars in this drama as Christie Malry, a lowly bank worker who indulges in extreme fantasies of sex and violence to escape his humdrum life of a job he hates and having to care for his dying mother. Whilst taking an evening class, Christie learns the principles of double-entry ...
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