Starring: Simon Callow, Iain Robertson, Harry Enfield, Celia Imrie, Doon Mackichan
Director: Johnny Daukes
Running Time: 82 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 16th, 2012

Not many movies open with a man standing in a hotel car park in the pouring rain, absolutely butt naked. However the opening shots of Acts Of Godfrey are a hint right from the beginning that this isn’t the sort of movie that’s going to do things by the book.

However what really marks it out isn’t its penchant for car park nudity but that the whole thing is written and performed in rhyming couplets. Indeed you get the impression that it was the chance to make a film in modern verse that attracted the likes of Simon Callow, Harry Enfield, Celia Imrie and Doon Mackichan. [Read more…]