Tube Tales
1999
TUBE TALES goes into the London Underground to tell a series of funny and unusual subterranean stories. The film features directors such as Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, and--in their directorial debuts--Ewan McGregor and Jude Law. The cast includes Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Kelly MacDonald, and many more. Read more
| Starring | Kelly MacDonald, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Ray Winstone |
|---|---|
| Director | Bob Hoskins, Stephen Hopkins, Charles McDougal |
| Genres | Drama |
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Tube Tales
TUBE TALES goes into the London Underground to tell a series of funny and unusual subterranean stories. The film features directors such as Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, and--in their directorial debuts--Ewan McGregor and Jude Law. The cast includes Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Kelly MacDonald, and many more.
| Starring | Kelly MacDonald, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Ray Winstone, Rachel Weisz, Hans Matheson, Denise Van Outen |
|---|---|
| Director | Bob Hoskins, Stephen Hopkins, Charles McDougal |
| Studio | CINEMA CLUB |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Oct 2002 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Inspired by the American Subway Stories and made up of anecdotal tales provided by Time Out readers, this compendium is... read more on Time Out
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13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
A good collection of short, mysterious and funny stories complimented by a medley of British actors and directors
I really enjoyed this. It?s a collection of short stories set on the London Underground that were inspired by a Time Out competition which asked people to write about what they saw/experienced on the tube. The result is unsurprisingly for anyone who has ever witnessed the ?weird and wonderful? oddness that goes on when you put a whole bunch of people, with all the peculiar difficulties and oddities of there own personalities and life?s, together for a short period of time in a confined space.
The stories are often odd, funny, magical, cheeky (Denise Van Outen in ?horny? especially!) and interesting and they also provide an eclectic mix of new and establishing British actors and directors. Actors include: Kelly Macdonald, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Ray Winstone, Rachel Weisz, Hans Matheson, Denise Van Outen and directors: Bob Hoskins, Stephen Hopkins, Charles McDougall, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Amy Jenkins.
Admittedly, it?s not a film, nor is a straightforward sit back and watch whilst eating potato chips and pizza (although actually it?s fairly good for that too!). It?s a great collection of stories which exaggerate and play upon the familiar themes and emotions we all often experience on the London Underground: - the closeness of strangers, the hustle, the odd people, the beautiful, so many lives trapped together in the same space, being alone in a crowd, being out of control and perhaps under some kind of influence!, the moment of calm it gives to a crazy day (after all, you have to remain still for at least one stop, in a metal tube there is no way to get off!), the crush, the ?heat?, the bewilderment and loss of direction, trying to ignore what?s going on around you etc. etc.
Some of these Tube Tales are remarkable ? like ?A bird in the hand?, some are not, but all are both entertaining on the surface level and quite moving and memorable at the heart. -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Disjointed
This DVD appealed to me as I am originally from London and the idea of stories constructed around a place where I have spent so much time (e.g. the tube).
The problem that I found with this is that the stores on the disc are too short and too choppy for you to really identify with the central characters or for the film to develop any real sense of identification.
I also found that the direction and writing of the stories varies wildly so that you have a gritty drug/gangster thriller next to a semi love story with no dialogue. This makes this very hard to watch and unsettles the viewer quite a bit. This DVD is good in parts but not as a whole. -
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Tube Tales
TUBE TALES goes into the London Underground to tell a series of funny and unusual subterranean stories. The film features directors such as Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, and--in their directorial debuts--Ewan McGregor and Jude Law. The cast includes Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Kelly MacDonald, and ...
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