Guest House Paradiso

"Pay to check in... pray to check out!"

1999 1h 30m EN

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6.1

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6.1

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★6.1TMDB · 155★6.1IMDB · 10,792

Comedy

Synopsis

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Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!

“Pay to check in... pray to check out!”

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Cast

Rik Mayall
Richie Twat
Adrian Edmondson
Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba
Bill Nighy
Mr. Johnson
Kate Ashfield
Mrs. Hardy
Steven O'Donnell
Chef
Fenella Fielding
Mrs. Foxfur
Vincent Cassel
Gino Bolognese
Hélène Mahieu
Gina Carbonara

Credits

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Director: Adrian Edmondson
Writers: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Adrian Edmondson, shot by Alan Almond. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Colin Towns. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Sean Barton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson and Bill Nighy carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Pay to check in... pray to check out!".

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8 / 8

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IMDB entry: tt0202381 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Adrian Edmondson directs. Alan Almond behind the camera. Colin Towns scores. Sean Barton cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
227 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Directed by Adrian Edmondson, shot by Alan Almond. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Colin Towns. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Sean Barton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson and Bill Nighy carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Pay to check in... pray to check out!".
8IMDB entry: tt0202381 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Alan Almond
Original score: Colin Towns
Editing: Sean Barton
Production design: Tom Brown
Costume design: Pam Downe
Makeup / hair: Joceline Andrews
Runtime: 90 min · 1h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Guest House Paradiso (1999)
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 10,792 votes
MPAA: R

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LastCaress19722013-08-11
Guest House Paradiso, then; a movie I bought for £1 at the local flea market, and which left me feeling ripped off for the entire pound. What started as a tired sequence of set pieces within the world's dreariest set (I'm sure that was the point, but still), involving Rik Mayall with his shirt tucked into his underpants (again), fighting aimlessly and endlessly with a vaguely embarrassed-looking (as well he should be, as the director) Adrian Edmondson whilst Bill Nighy watched on redundantly, morphed into an extended scene featuring a heavy-handed Vincent Cassel (what was he thinking??) attempting to rape his new "bride" whilst awaiting delivery of some prostitutes he'd ordered, and finally collapsed into a new nadir for cinema with a pea-green-soup puke-a-thon (starring Cassel, Simon Pegg and Fenella Fielding amongst others), with said substance filling rooms and corridors alike. I watched the "Making Of" featurette afterwards, and Rik Mayall explained that he and Adrian (the co-writers of this ) had so many good ideas for the script that the initial read-through ran at almost three-and-a-half hours, forcing them to condense the gags down to "just the very best" ones. Jesus Christ, a puerile 8-man orgy of cartoon-style vomitus taking up at least the last 15 minutes of the film was one of the "very best" gags? Even judging that sequence by its own disgusting standards, it's been done better before (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life) and since (Team America: World Police). No, in this case it was a just bad gag, executed badly. Dreadful. And I'm not just snootily bemoaning Rik and Adrian's sophomoric tendency to rely on repeatedly hitting each other with large objects, Tom & Jerry-style. They've been doing that for years, to much greater effect (The Comic Strip Presents... Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door for instance was brilliant), but this is easily the poorest thing I've seen from either of them.

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