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What About Dick?

“Oscar Wilde on acid,” “like Downton Abbey and almost as funny,” “like E.M Forster on steroids” and “a cross between a budgerigar and an accountant.”
Nov 13, 2012 · 1h 20m
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Comedy

PLOT

The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano. The Piano narrates the tale of Dick; his two cousins: Emma, an emotionally stunted English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel. When the Reverend Whoopsie discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin, who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.

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CAST

Suzy Eddie Izzard
Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley
Eric Idle
The Piano
Russell Brand
Dick
Jane Leeves
Emma
Sophie Winkleman
Helena
Tracey Ullman
Aunt Maggie
Tim Curry
Reverend Whoopsie
Billy Connolly
Inspector McGuffin
Directed by Eric Idle

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
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Country
GB, US
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