The standard of acting is poor beyond belief. What happened to Grant’s career that he should be in the likes of this?
First Night
United Kingdom · 2010
1h 56m
Director Christopher Menaul
Starring Richard E. Grant, Peter Basham, Sarah Brightman, Edyta Budnik
Genre Comedy, Music, Romance
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Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of a female conductor he has been pursuing whom - it just so happens - is the first to be recruited for his showpiece
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What are critics saying?
The political dynamic that underpins The Rules of the Game is nonexistent in 1st Night, which is fixated entirely on the zany sexcapades of its characters.
It’s to director Chris Menaul’s credit that his lack of big-screen experience isn’t evident, but the same can’t be said for his cast who are, by and large, too stiff to charm.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
This farcical romantic comedy lacks the charm and star power to compensate for its contrived plotting and only mildly amusing situations.
Village Voice by Pete Vonder Haar
The depressingly predictable script—and tendency of everyone involved to jump to ridiculous conclusions—suggests a combination of Noises Off at best, and at worst, Three's Company.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
If 1st Night had a glint of social satire, it might have amounted to something more than a frivolous fatuity. But it plays as an arch, hammily acted farce.
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