Rent Whisky Galore! (2016)
3.0 of 5 from 193 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- Based on the infamous 1941 true story, Whisky Galore! is a charming and heart-warming tale of a close-knit Scottish island community who mischievously relieve a sinking cargo ship of cases of whisky during wartime scarcity. The ensuing merriment is threatened when Excise Men try to spoil the party by catching the crafty locals, red handed, with the bottled loot. After enduring a 'dry' period, the shipwreck and its amber cargo was like manna from heaven to the islanders, to whom whisky was part of the very life blood of their Island!
- Actors:
- Ellie Kendrick, James Cosmo, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff, Kevin Guthrie, Tim Pigott-Smith, Naomi Battrick, Fenella Woolgar, Gregor Fisher, Michael Nardone, Brian Pettifer, Kevin Mains, Iain Robertson, Ken Drury, Sean Scanlan, Matt Costello, Annie Louise Ross, Ciaron Kelly, Alan Cuthbert, Antony Strachan
- Directors:
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Producers:
- Iain MacLean, Alan J. Wands
- Writers:
- Peter McDougall
- Studio:
- Arrow Films
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- 1949: That Ealing Feeling, British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Drama Films & TV
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/11/2017
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interviews
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Reviews (6) of Whisky Galore!
Greg goes legit - Whisky Galore! review by NC
Nice little re-make of a very old, known, film. All good acting and takes very simple plot along well. Characters all credible, and Greg shows he can actually act without a string vest on.
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A feelgood story,but not a feelgood film - Whisky Galore! review by MW
I wanted to like this film, but....
The cast is promising and the story comfy, so it ought to work but it doesn't.
While some performances are nuanced, poor Eddie Izzard's is decidedly not.
The script is predictable.
The direction is pedestrian.
The cinematography lacks the beauty one would hope for.
It isn't quite awful, but it's a close-run thing at times, I'm afraid.
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Quite a poor adaptation of Compton MacKenzie's book and the Ealing Film - Whisky Galore! review by CP Customer
Compton MacKenzie was a prolofic and talented Scottish author whose works have been adapted for film and TV. Whiskey Galore and The Monarch of the Glen are probably the two most famous. The first is loosely based on the sinking of SS Politician which sank off Islay with a cargo of alcohol destined for the West Indies.
In the Ealing Films version it was played very much in the slapstick style and thanks to some great British character actors became a much loved success. Unfortunately, the remake cannot decide whether to be true to the book or the earlier film and as a result has the charm of neither. As a previous reviewer said, some of the characters needed work, but also, in my view, did the sets. It felt low budget, almost made for TV with indoor or restricted shots. No sense of the grandeur of the Isle or the remoteness of the location. at the time of the events, there were no decent roads to the Inner Hebrides and so the community really was isolated. The villagers could never see why their locawhen there were few decent roads to the Inner Hebrides. This is something the Ealing film achieved.
There is on tour an all female cast version and it is much better than this film on a thousandth of its budget
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