Dirty Weekend (1993)
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18% of users liked it
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Michael Winner directs a curious amalgam of his own Death Wish and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45, in this intense, post-feminist serial-killer movie, based on the bestseller by Helen Zahavi. After an explosive love affair crashes and burns, Bella (Lia Williams) leaves London for Brighton, where she… More Michael Winner directs a curious amalgam of his own Death Wish and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45, in this intense, post-feminist serial-killer movie, based on the bestseller by Helen Zahavi. After an explosive love affair crashes and burns, Bella (Lia Williams) leaves London for Brighton, where she begins to receive a series of obscene telephone calls from her deranged neighbor. Soon her neighbor also begins to stalk her. When the local police refuse to help her, Bella determines to take the matter into her own hands. Finally, at the urging of a loony Asian clairvoyant (Ian Richardson), Bella sneaks into the stalker's apartment in the dead of night and beats him to death with a claw-hammer. And to Bella's surprise, she finds that she likes it. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Winner
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 29, 1993 Wide
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Adam Lippe, Examiner.com
When three random thugs decide to rape an old homeless lady, is it a commentary on how relentlessly desperate filmmakers get when making a revenge film and have to continuously produce new foes?
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Cast
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Lia Williams
as Bella
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David McCallum
as Reggie
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Ian Richardson
as Nimrod
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Rufus Sewell
as Tim
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Sylvia Syms
as Mrs. Crosby
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Mark Burns
as Mr. Brown
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Michael Cole
as Norman
- Sean Pertwee
