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Director:
Writers:
Patrick McGrath (novel) &
Patrick McGrath (screenplay)
Release Date:
7 March 1997 (USA) more
Tagline:
Beneath the surface of respectability lies the shadow of our darker side.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Bates | ... | Sir Hugo Coal |
 | Theresa Russell | ... | Lady Harriet Coal |
 | Sting | ... | Fledge |
 | Lena Headey | ... | Cleo Coal |
 | Jim Carter | ... | George Lecky |
| Anna Massey | ... | Mrs. Giblet |
 | Trudie Styler | ... | Doris |
| Maria Aitken | ... | Lavinia Freebody |
| James Fleet | ... | Inspector Limp |
 | Steven Mackintosh | ... | Sidney Giblet |
 | John Mills | ... | Sir Edward Cleghorn |
| Chris Barnes | ... | Johm Lecky |
| Timothy Kightley | ... | Harbottle |
| Richard Durden | ... | Sykes-Herring |
| Nick Lucas | ... | Hubert Cleggie |
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Also Known As:
Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (USA)
Grave Indiscretion (USA) (video title)
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Rated R for sexuality and some gore.
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99 min
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South Africa:16 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R
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Lady Giblet: It will be assumed that a man who could stumble across a dead body and feed it to his pigs is a man who could kill. We tend to lose the fine distinction when it comes to such things. more
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I like the premise of this film, a butler worming his way into the family to gain their inheritance, but the execution lacks any excitement, tension or even passion that it should.
Sting fails to capture any real nastiness about himself, the cinematography is DULL and the really leaden script doesn't do any justice to the fine Patrick McGrath novel.