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A Bunch of Amateurs

A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)

  • 39% of users liked it
    (391 ratings)

Jefferson Steel is an ageing Hollywood action hero. He's vain, insecure and out of work. In a final attempt to find Jefferson work his agent stumbles upon the perfect role: playing King Lear at Stratford-upon-Avon. Jefferson believes he has landed the role of a lifetime; arriving in the UK to… More

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Unrated,
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Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 31, 2009 Wide
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Critic Reviews

  • David Stratton, At the Movies (Australia)

    There's something faintly embarrassing watching fading movie star BURT REYNOLDS, who looks embalmed, playing fading movie star Jefferson Steel, and something even more embarrassing when we're asked to accept that he makes a resounding success as Lear.

  • Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

    Overcooked to the point of being burnt, this total misfire in which Burt Reynolds' ageing has-been Hollywood actor finds himself in an amateur production of King Lear in England, is a fish-out-of-water comedy gone badly wrong.

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  • Gordon A


    Cosy am-dram luv in which is completely bland like a warm ovaltine on a Sunday night.

  • Phil H


    I thought this was gonna be straight to DVD crap but it actually quite a nice charming little film about a big head Hollywood actor trying his luck in a small English village with the local thesp troop and some Shakespearian roles. Its not groundbreaking or anything but it is a good,… More

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