Mack the Knife (The Threepenny Opera) (1989)
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20% of critics liked it
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32% of users liked it
(231 ratings)
This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era London. The girl's family attempts to thwart the marriage by catching the thief in the act. ~… More This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era London. The girl's family attempts to thwart the marriage by catching the thief in the act. ~ John Bush, Rovi
- Directed By
- Menahem Golan
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Jun 1, 1989 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is finally just a slog through a half-digested plot, involving half-understood characters who bear the names, but not the meanings or the spirits, of the Brecht and Weill originals.
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Cast
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Raul Julia
as MacHeath
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Richard Harris
as Mr. Peachum
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Julia Migenes
as Jenny Diver
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Roger Daltrey
as Street Singer
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Julie Walters
as Mrs. Peachum
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Rachel Robertson
as Polly Peachum
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Clive Revill
as Money Matthew
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Bill Nighy
as Tiger Brown
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Erin Donovan
as Lucy Brown
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Julie T. Wallace
as Coaxer
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Russel Gold
as Hookfinger Jake
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Roy Holder
as Wally the Weeper
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Dong Ji Hong
as Sukey Tawdry
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Sandor Kaposi
as Organ Grinder
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Chrissie Kendall
as Betty
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Steven Law
as Sergeant Smith
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Clive Mantle
as Johnny Ladder
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Mark Northover
as Jimmy Jewels
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Louise Plowright
as Dolly
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Iain Rogerson
as Filch
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Peter Rutherford
as Warden
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Elizabeth Seal
as Molly
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John Woodnut
as Reverend Kimball
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Miranda Garrison
as Esmerelda
