Whisky Galore
(2016)Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship in this remake of the 1949 Ealing comedy of the same name. Stars Eddie Izzard.
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Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Starring Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Ellie Kendrick, Sean Biggerstaff, Tim Pigott-Smith, Fenella Woolgar
Written by Peter McDougall (based on the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name)
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Whisky Galore
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Gillies MacKinnon’s remake of the classic postwar Ealing comedy is light on laughs and feels out of place in 2016. Full Review
While it's a movie not lacking in nationality, it sure doesn't have much personality. No, it doesn't capture the, och aye, spirit of the original. Full Review
...from Izzard's constantly black-affronted army man to Kevin Guthrie's mother hen-pecked schoolteacher and Gregor Fisher's scheming postmaster there's plenty of panto-style characters to stir the emotions. Full Review
What makes the film so pleasurable is the humour and lyricism with which it tells its rousing story of whisky-loving small timers coming together together to keep officialdom at bay. Full Review
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