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The Parole Officer (2001)

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Average Rating: 6/10
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Release Date: Jan 1, 2001 Wide

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British television comic Steve Coogan made his first bid for a big-screen career in this comedy, in which he plays Simon Garden, a singularly inept parole officer who has not had terribly good luck with his clients -- after many years on the job, only three of the former prisoners he's been looking after have avoided returning to a life of crime. Garden is transferred from his post in Blackpool to a new assignment in Manchester, and it isn't long before he finds himself in hot water. Garden

R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy

Directed By: John Duigan

Written By: Henry Normal

In Theaters: Jan 1, 2001 Wide

Universal Pictures

Coogan � um comediante excepcional - assim, mesmo trabalhando com um roteiro mediano (de sua pr�pria autoria), consegue arrancar algumas boas risadas.

August 11, 2004 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

It's watchable.

October 15, 2001 Comment

Ian Waldron-Mantgani

UK Critic

Combining all the best elements of home-grown rom-coms and gangster capers, this breathes fresh life into both genres.

August 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Caroline Westbrook

Empire Magazine

An intermittently hilarious vehicle for British TV star Steve Coogan.

August 9, 2001 Full Review Source: BBC

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Neil Smith

BBC

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i like it this is a proper british comedy steve coogan is the parole officer and needs to break into a bank to retrieve the tape that proves a curupt cop murder a bloke but the only people helping him are idiots but along with some help is emma (lena headey) who ends up liking him in a more personannal level but its good and funny!

November 13, 2008

Film Crazy

Super Reviewer

It's got a few funny moments - But overall nothing special.

February 15, 2008

Jason Davies

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1. Detective-Inspector Burton: I won't lay a finger on you. But you'll go to prison. And when those nonces and those perverts get hold of a clever boy like you - and I'll make sure they do - they'll be queueing up round the block. You're going to end up with an arsehole like a clown's pocket.
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