Rent Wicked Little Letters (2023)
3.5 of 5 from 283 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
- When Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and fellow residents of 1920s Littlehampton begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose (Jessie Buckley) is charged with the crime. However, as the town's women begin to investigate the crime, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.
- Actors:
- Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Alisha Weir, Anjana Vasan, Hugh Skinner, Edward Judge, Michael O'Connor, Antony Somers, Paul Chahidi, Tim McMullan, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Scanlan, Ian Drysdale, Jonny Sweet, Tim Key, Jenny Galloway
- Directors:
- Thea Sharrock
- Producers:
- Graham Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Peter Czernin, Ed Sinclair, Jo Wallett
- Writers:
- Jonny Sweet
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/05/2024
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description, 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:
- Featurette: 'Frenemies'
- Featurete: 'Trolling in the Twenties'
- Featurette 'True Story'
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Reviews (4) of Wicked Little Letters
very funny - tonally wobbly - Wicked Little Letters review by AER
This very funny story is about a poison pen letter case in 1920s Sussex. It's only when the film occasionally veers away from the humour does it falter. The cast is very funny and it's all very Brit-com. Enjoyable and worth a look if you can handle all the very blue language.
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Era wonkey - Wicked Little Letters review by HM
Based on a true story apparently. However, the swearing which peppers the whole film seemed more local council estate 2024 than the 1920s. My older working class lady relatives would be spinning in their graves as their values would not have allowed this in their households. And as usual an over representation of black people who almost certainly didn't live in an English seaside town in those days and the national population was tiny and mostly living in ports to my knowledge. The only black female police constable in England pops up? And of course the men are all inept idiots, not least the police so that the only cop who could sort the situation is said black female cop. The casting seemed more like diversity propaganda which seems to be a priority amongst the London art elite these days.
Eventually it gets started and is amusing, but for me the woke, feminist nonsense spoilt it. The TRUE story would have been more impactive, especially not including day to day swearing as this distracted from the abnormal language used in the 'letters'.
On the positive side the female leads give top notch performances.
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Slight little film - Wicked Little Letters review by LG
There is some top-notch swearing that puts me in mind of the quality of epithets from the The Thick Of It (if that programme was set in a wee rural town rather than Westminster.) A few laugh out loud moments of hilarity mainly in seeing Olivia Colman curse like a demon. The whole movie is rather slight though and the dialogue is pedestrian. Some great British actors bouy it up and it isn't a long film.
The fact behind this fiction might be a bit more interesting.
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