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Bad Behaviour

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Bad Behaviour - 1993 | 104mins | Comedy, Drama | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Les Blair.
Producer: Sarah Curtis.
Script: Les Blair.
Cinematography: Witold Stok.
Editing: Martin Walsh.
Production Design: Jim Grant.
Art Direction: Rebecca M. Harvey.
Costume Design: Janty Yates.
Makeup Department: Louise Fisher.
Sound Department: Norman A. Cole.
Original Music: John Altman.

The Cast

Stephen Rea - Gerry McAllister
Sinéad Cusack - Ellie McAllister
Philip Jackson - Howard Spink
Clare Higgins - Jessica Kennedy
Phil Daniels - The Nunn Brothers
Mary Jo Randle - Winifred Turner
Saira Todd - Sophie Bevan
Amanda Boxer - Linda Marks

Plot Synopsis

This very British blend of low key humour, heartache and home improvements in this portrait of marriage, middle classes and midlife crises in London. Director Les Blair’s improvised social comedy celebrates the mundane and stands and falls on the viewer’s recognition and acceptance of natural character types.

Set in the North London's suburbs, Irish married couple the McAllister’s, local planner Gerry (Stephen Rea) and stay-at-home wife Ellie (Sinead Cusack) have got their fair share of domestic dilemmas; they are married with two kids and a subsiding bathroom. To carry out work on their bathroom renovation they’ve accepted advice from crooked entrepreneur Howard Spink (Philip Jackson) and his recommended builders: the double-take Nunn Brothers (Phil Daniels). Over the coming weeks they fall out with predatory Spink over money, frustrated Ellie loses a neurotic friend (Claire Higgins) and Gerry enjoys some harmless flirting with a work colleague.