Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Jan 1, 2001 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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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
Jan 1, 2001 Wide
Universal Pictures
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (2) | DVD (10)
Coogan é um comediante excepcional - assim, mesmo trabalhando com um roteiro mediano (de sua própria autoria), consegue arrancar algumas boas risadas.
It's watchable.
Combining all the best elements of home-grown rom-coms and gangster capers, this breathes fresh life into both genres.
An intermittently hilarious vehicle for British TV star Steve Coogan.
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
November 13, 2008
Super Reviewer
It's got a few funny moments - But overall nothing special.
February 15, 2008Super Reviewer
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