Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy 'poet' living in San Francisco, who frequents neighbourhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships, Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When he finds himself falling for .. Read more
| Starring | Nancy Travis, Anthony La Paglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker |
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| Director | Thomas Schlamme |
| Genres | Comedy, Thriller |
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Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy 'poet' living in San Francisco, who frequents neighbourhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships, Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When he finds himself falling for the sweet-faced butcher (Nancy Travis) at his local meat shop, he sees it as a final chance for love to overcome his painful cynicism. Feeling he has squelched his nagging fears, Mackenzie marries the woman. But his anxiety quickly manifests itself in the conviction that his betrothed is actually an infamous axe murderer whose antics are described in juicy detail in each week's issue of the Weekly World News. Myers also plays his own father, Stuart Mackenzie, a football-loving, Rod Stewart-singing Scotsman who repeatedly refers to Charlie's over-cranial younger brother William as 'Head'.
| Starring | Nancy Travis, Anthony La Paglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Mike Myers, Paul Sanchez |
|---|---|
| Director | Thomas Schlamme |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 33 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Comedy, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish Latin American, Swedish, Thai |
| Released | Production year: 1993 To Rent: DVD: 12 Nov 2001 Blu-ray: 16 Jun 2008 |
"...It's a delightful and unexpected surprise....The comedy is a hip slice of life about the dilemma of martial commitment with just a pinch of Hitchcock providing the cutting edge..."
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HEED! DVD NOW!
What a fab film, even those who don't like myers work will like this riotous film which will keep you entertained until the very unexpected ending. Myers (... read more »
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first true funny film
Mike Myres gave us wayns world and well they were kinda funne y at the time if you were 16 but they didnt stand the test of time , axe murderer on the other ... read more »
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Very Underrated.
I suppose what puts most people off this film is the title - it seems predictable, twee & like it will end up being a mixture of gorey & goofy (rather ... read more »
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ok
It was ok but some parts seem to repeat.
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