There's No Business...

1994 1h 15m EN

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Synopsis

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There's No Business... is a 1994 British partially improvised comedy film directed by Kevin Molony and produced by Claudia Lloyd for Prospect Pictures. It stars Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron) as Ken Bishop and his stepson Duane, and Lee Cornes as their musical agent Dickie Valentino, in their attempt to remake a track by Ken's old band, 'The Nice Twelve' for a TV advert for 'Pinkies', a brand of kitchen gloves made by Mort Clayton (Mac McDonald). Alexander Armstrong (Tim) and Sam Graham (Fergus) work for the fictional advertising agency Sprote and Sprote. The film takes its name from the 1954 film There's No Business Like Show Business which itself borrowed the 1946 song of the same name by Irving Berlin, written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Simon Brint
Kenworth "Ken" Bishop
Rowland Rivron
Duane Bishop
Lee Cornes
Dickie Valentino
Tilly Vosburgh
Tilly
Stephen Frost
Reg Prince
Mark Arden
Johnny Blackpool
Paul Mark Elliott
Bernie Cosmos
Sam Graham
Fergus

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kevin Molony
Writers: Rowland Rivron
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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Tight 75-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 7

ERA

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

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kevin Molony, shot by Colin Fox. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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

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CAST

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Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron and Lee Cornes carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0158269 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kevin Molony directs. Colin Fox behind the camera. Piers Douglas cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 75-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
232 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Directed by Kevin Molony, shot by Colin Fox. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Piers Douglas shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron and Lee Cornes carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt0158269 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Colin Fox
Editing: Piers Douglas
Costume design: Penny McDonald
Runtime: 75 min · 1h 15m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): 15
IMDB: There's No Business... (1994)

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Flexage2022-04-24
The film has had very few critical reviews. It has no entry on Rotten Tomatoes. Andrew O'Neill opens a brief appreciation with the words "No one knows about this film, and that's a fucking tragedy." Rivron and Brint's film "includes pretty much every one of the under-appreciated acts from the first wave of alternative comedy." Brint wrote "music for pretty much every comedy show in the '80s and '90s, but here he is piss-funny as the understated keyboardist and bandleader Ken Bishop." Source: https://en.everybodywiki.com/There%27s_No_Business..._(1994_film)

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