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The Martins
2001
THE MARTINS is a Ken Loach style comically tinged drama about a working class English family from TV drama director Tony Grounds. After failing to win a holiday in a competition, jobless Robert Martin (Lee Evans) embarks on a crime spree in an effort to please his children and long suffering wife (played by the always excellent .. Read more
| Starring | Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett, Eric Byrne |
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| Director | Tony Grounds |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Martins
THE MARTINS is a Ken Loach style comically tinged drama about a working class English family from TV drama director Tony Grounds. After failing to win a holiday in a competition, jobless Robert Martin (Lee Evans) embarks on a crime spree in an effort to please his children and long suffering wife (played by the always excellent Kathy Burke) but with less than successful results
| Starring | Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett, Eric Byrne, Terri Dumont, Frank Finlay |
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| Director | Tony Grounds |
| Studio | ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 23 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 23 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2001 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 05 Jan 2011 To Rent: DVD: 18 Mar 2002 |
| LOVEFiLM Instant | £2.49 |
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A star vehicle for a comedian who has yet to prove himself a star on screen, and this witless hotchpotch won't help.
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- Halliwell's Film Guide
- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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Surprisingly moving and very British
The British love the underdog and few people know this as well as the comic Lee Evans. So first-time director Tony Grounds must have felt on sure ground when he... read more »
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[Highly rated reviewer]
- Sarah
- London, England
- 04 Sep 2004 at 23:16
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The Martins
This film was a complete let down, way to much explicit language, was hardly any scene that did not have the f word in it and nothing but them all way through a... read more »
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- baptized2008
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- 14 Mar 2011 at 00:02
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The Martins surprised me
I have to said this film is a good film and deserve more than 3 starts.
Do not expect too much from this film and you will enjoy it even more. - 970554
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- lmu
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- surrey
- 06 Mar 2011 at 18:16
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A Few good laughs
This film was not as funny as I thought it would be, considering it starred Lee Evans, who i think is one of the top stand up comedians of our day and the ... read more »
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- BobbyJo
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- 07 Jan 2011 at 20:31
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The Martins
THE MARTINS is a Ken Loach style comically tinged drama about a working class English family from TV drama director Tony Grounds. After failing to win a holiday in a competition, jobless Robert Martin (Lee Evans) embarks on a crime spree in an effort to please his children and long suffering wife (...
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