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The Tall Guy News

1988 Certificate 15
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Dexter King is a tall, dark actor, and stooge to a famous, funny and vastly unpleasant Ron Anderson. All that stands between Dexter King and success is his hayfever and his tight-fisted boss. Dexter meets up with a sexy nurse who seems to hold the cure for hayfever... but she has a huge sexual appetite... and she holds the key .. Read more

Starring Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Geraldine James
Director Mel Smith
Genres Comedy

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    Emma Thompson: Top of the Class

    • 03 Jun 2009

    Thank heavens for Emma Thompson! The House of Lords may fall. Our MPs may act like lemmings, and poor old Susan Boyle is surely the British cultural icon we deserve… but as this week’s cinema release Last Chance Harvey proves, Emma Thompson prevails, a comforting reminder of Empire and order, a Britain where quality, common sense and self-deprecating wit trump tabloid fame and sleaze. She would demur, I’m sure, but Thompson is your mum’s idea of what a British film star Read more

    Girl With A Pearl Earring

    Leicester Square becomes nanny state

    • 10 Oct 2005

    Emma Thompson, star of such films as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Love Actually, The Remains of the Day and The Tall Guy, has once again gone behind, as well as in front, of the camera with her new film Nanny McPhee, premiering at the weekend. Leicester Square was packed on Saturday night to see Thompson, who wrote the screenplay, along with the film's other stars Colin Firth (Bridget Jones' Diary, The Girl With a Pearl Earring, Shakespeare In Love) Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake,... Read more

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    • The Tall Guy
      Dexter King is a tall, dark actor, and stooge to a famous, funny and vastly unpleasant Ron Anderson. All that stands between Dexter King and success is his hayfever and his tight-fisted boss. Dexter meets up with a sexy nurse who seems to hold the cure for hayfever... but she has a huge sexual ...