Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
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11% of critics liked it
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29% of users liked it
(3,171 ratings)
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan… More Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown) is a professional hit man. Orton, Horton and Lawton all check into adjoining rooms at a posh Venetian hotel. Bellboy Bronson Pinchot, whose grasp of the English language is virtually nonexistent, delivers the wrong messages to the three men. That's why Orton is trying to sell a valuable piece of property to a roomful of mafiosi, Horton is "paired up" with an unwitting female real estate broker, and Lawton is preparing to rub out a hapless dating-service subscriber......Written by director Mark Herman, this old-style doorslamming farce might have passed muster as a dinner-theater attraction, but on film it comes across as strained and tiresome. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mark Herman
- Genres
- Art House & International, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Mar 6, 1992 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser
An attempt at farce set in Venice and involving three people with similar sounding last names and an Italian bellboy
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Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum
Can I instead Blame it on Mark Herman?
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Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Blame it on the screenplay.
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Cast
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Dudley Moore
as Melvyn Orton
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Bryan Brown
as Charlton Black, Mike Lawton
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Andreas Katsulas
as Bettino Scarpa
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Patsy Kensit
as Caroline Wright
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Alison Steadman
as Rosemary Horton
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Penelope Wilton
as Patricia Fulford
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Bronson Pinchot
as Bellboy
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Lindsay Anderson
as Mr. Marshall
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Andrew Bradford
as Italian Victim
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Jim Carter
as Rossi
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John Grillo
as Hotel Manager
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Alex Norton
as Alfio
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Ronnie Stevens
as Man on Plane
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Enzo Turrin
as Senior Policeman
- Irene Lamb
- Richard Griffiths
