Guest House Paradiso
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| Directed by | Ade Edmondson |
| Produced by | Phil McIntyre |
| Written by | Rik Mayall Ade Edmondson |
| Starring | Rik Mayall Adrian Edmondson Vincent Cassel Hélène Mahieu Bill Nighy Simon Pegg Fenella Fielding Lisa Palfrey Kate Ashfield Steve O'Donnell Sophia Myles Emma Pierson James D'Arcy Kate Loustau |
| Distributed by | Universal |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Language | English |
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Guest House Paradiso is a 1999 comedy slapstick movie, starring Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, and directed by Edmondson. It is based on their comedy television series Bottom. The key difference in the characters is in their names: Rik's character, known as "Richard Richard" in the TV show, is here referred to as "Richard Twat" (although he regularly and angrily insists on the pronunciation "Thwaite"). Eddie's character changes from "Eddie Hitler" in the TV show to "Eddie Elizabeth Ndingobamba".
The film was made on the Isle of Wight.
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[edit] Story
Richie (Mayall) and Eddie (Edmondson) run the worst guest house in the UK, neighbouring a nuclear power station. The chef is a smelly drunk who can't cook and eventually leaves due to his lack of payment, the guests are totally unsatified (one of them played by Bill Nighy) due to the lack of service such as waiters etc, and so they all decide to leave, except for "Mrs Foxfur" (Fenella Fielding) who lives there.
The most famous scene in the film, and the most violent, is Richie and Eddie's fight in the kitchen, from smacking each other's heads in the fridge door, Richie putting meat hooks up Eddie's nose and crashing him about the place, to Eddie crushing Richie's testicles with (appropriately) a nutcracker.
Life seems bleak for Eddie and Richie, but things seemingly improve with the arrival of the "Nice family", with Simon Pegg playing the father. Furthermore, the famous Italian actress "Gina Carbonara" (Helene Mahieu) comes to stay in the grotty house seeking safety from her ill-tempered boyfriend (played by French actor Vincent Cassel), although her boyfriend does eventually find her and comes to the guest house near the end of the movie.
Further on in the movie Richie finds some fish, which fell off a loading truck going to the nuclear power station, whilst running over Eddie's head. Richie and Eddie don't realise that the fish are contaminated until they feed them to the guests. Hours later the guests are expelling huge quantities of green vomit at high velocity - all except for Gina Carbonara who is apparently the only guest who did not eat the fish. In the resulting chaos, Gina's violent boyfriend is propelled out of a window into the sea and presumably drowned.
Agents from the secret service arrive to hush up the incident and give Eddie and Richie a suitcase full of money. They pack their belongings and head off to the Caribbean, taking Gina Carbonara with them.
[edit] Trivia
- Featured an early appearance by Sophia Myles, who went on to star in Thunderbirds[1], Tristan & Isolde[2] and Doctor Who (2006).
[edit] Quotations
Eddie: What's wrong Rich?
Richie (after being burned in the eye with a candle): Candle in the eye!
Eddie: What?
Richie: Candle in the eye!
Eddie: Righto! (shoves the candle into Richie's other eye)
Mr. Johnson: Look, Mr Twat...
Richie: It's pronounced Thwaite!
Mr. Johnson: Well it's spelt (pointing to letters on nametag) T.W.A.T. TWAT!
Richie: Would you keep your voice down!? We do have normal guests as well!
Mrs. Johnson: Can I ask where your eggs come from?
Richie: Hen's vaginas.
Richie: Pheeb. One boiled egg.
Richie: (Rips off a piece of paper and hands it to Eddie) Look, here's the order, now copy that and cook it.
Eddie: But, it'll taste all papery.
