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Noises Off!

1992

Peter Bogdanovich

Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty ...

7.2

5,220

Comedy Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He's desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. We follow the production from final rehersals, through opening night, and onto the tour: as with any group of actors forced to work closely together for any great length of time, romances and arguments are bound to break out. Quite often, what's happening on stage is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"Moviegoers will be delighted by this sharply calibrated farce"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"There are a number of hefty laughs scattered throughout 'Noises Off' (...) Yet there are nowhere near as many as the source material deserves"	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Bogdanovich has judged his approach to the material astutely, resisting impulses toward comic overkill or transferring focus away from the stage. He takes his cue from the actors, and the camera is always in the right place."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The transition from stage to screen may be bumpy in spots, but this movie is much funnier than Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"This adaptation of Michael Frayn's stage hit undoubtedly has its moments, but will still disappoint those who laughed themselves silly at the original."	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"A movie that doesn't quite feel like a movie, and that's not quite as good as the play, but that's pretty good anyway"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"Very little sense of the performers' humanity emerges from behind their stage roles, perhaps because Bogdanovich has directed the supposedly spontaneous dialogue to sound just as forced and theatrical as the scripted lines"	NEU

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