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Parting Shots

Details: 1998, UK, Comedy, cert 12, 98 mins, Dir: Michael Winner
With: Ben Kingsley, Bob Hoskins, Chris Rea, Diana Rigg, Felicity Kendal, Joanna Lumley, John Cleese, Oliver Reed
Summary: Chris Rea is a comedic Charles Bronson in Michael Winner's feelgood comedy-Death Wish. Rea is the burdened photographer Harry, who, after being diagnosed with cancer and given six weeks to live, decides to wreak revenge against all those who have done him wrong, his ex-wife (Diana Rigg), his wicked best friend, (John Cleese) and a whole host of Winner's other actor cronies.

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Andrew Pulver: It can’t be denied that Winner's earlier precocious film-making abilities are now at a pretty low ebb more...

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Andrew Pulver: It can?t be denied that Winner's earlier precocious film-making abilities are now at a pretty low ebb
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Philip French: If I owned a veil I?d draw it over Parting Shots, a limping, listless comedy starring the lugubrious Chris Rea
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