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Mood:
Humorous Witty Sentimental
Plot:
Nothing Goes Right Race Against Time Chaos Disorder Obsession Teachers and Students Chaos and Mayhem Power Relations
Genres:
Comedy
Time/Period:
20th Century 80s
Place:
England School Train
Humor:
Comedy of Errors Dry Humor
Attitudes:
Not Serious Realistic
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Clockwise, 1986

Starring: John Cleese, Penelope Wilton

Directed by: Christopher Morahan

Written by: Michael Frayn

Language: English

Country: UK

Runtime: 96 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.6

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Clockwise can be described as witty, humorous, and sentimental. The plot revolves around chaos, a race against time, and a situation where nothing goes right. Its comic aspect comes from a comedy of errors and dry humor. Clockwise's main genre is comedy. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, on a train and at a school. Clockwise is located in England. It takes place in the 1980s. Note that it involves profanity.

Summary of Clockwise

John Cleese stars in this delightful British comedy as Brian Stimpson, the headmaster of a British high school whose obsession with punctuality is a source of humor for his students and joy for himself. Having been awarded the honor of being elected the chairman of a conference of headmasters from "posh" schools. To give his keynote address, Stimpson must travel all the way to Norwich. However, when a semantic misunderstanding sends Stimpson in the wrong direction, he begins a journey that not only finds him racing against time, but also avoiding the police, losing his speech and clothes, destroying a pay phone, and generally railing against a society that seems intent on forcing him to be late for the most important day of his life. Written to perfection by Michael Frayn (NOISES OFF), CLOCKWISE features a pitch perfect performance by John Cleese that makes this his funniest non MONTY PYTHON outing.

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Language:	English
Country:	UK
Release date:	10 October 1986
Runtime:	96 min

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John Cleese

as Brian Stimpson

Penelope Wilton

as Pat

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not as good as i expected it to be

John Cleese did much better in other films, but it's not really his fault, he didn't write the movie. it's not funny 90 percent of the time, some of the jokes are told several times during the movie and it has a tendency to be annoying but not in a... Read and rate it

11.September.2008
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by: barak gilon
barak gilon rated this movie6/10Okay

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