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06/24/06
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
93 %
Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 27 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Synopsis: Master director Greenaway (THE PILLOW BOOK) outdoes himself with this grisly fairy tale. The thief, Albert Spica, (Gambon) is a gangster, repugnant and boorish, who holds court at the same table in his opulent restaurant every night surrounded by his lackeys (Tim Roth and the late Ian Dury... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Alan Howard, Tim Roth
Director: Peter Greenaway
Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway
Composer: Michael Nyman
Producer: Kees Kasander
Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway
Composer: Michael Nyman
Producer: Kees Kasander
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01/01/00
Highly stylized and elegant Jacobean revenge tale over adultery and jealousy that rolls against the taste buds like a mouth full of hot pepper.
10/15/07
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05/26/06
The Cook, the Thief. His Wife and Her Lover is a dark and grim morality play about our insatiable appetite for cruelty and power.
08/30/04
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10/12/03
Singular and unforgettable, but also grotesque and hyper-inflated; hard to pass up, but harder to sit through.
08/16/03
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05/20/03
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