looks good, lots of local references, looks like the bugle pub one of the scenes. based on a book call the The Mumper, altho written by a millwall fan does look a good little film.
Bob Hoskins was filming in the Herschel Arms in Slough for this film in December 2010. This pub was chosen because it has a very traditional interior, as was much more common in the Eighties.
Bob Hoskins was filming in the Herschel Arms in Slough for this film in December 2010. This pub was chosen because it has a very traditional interior, as was much more common in the Eighties.
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so could have been the bugle, as thats been frozen in time since 1986
Bob Hoskins was filming in the Herschel Arms in Slough for this film in December 2010. This pub was chosen because it has a very traditional interior, as was much more common in the Eighties.
source IMDB
I used to drink in there in the 70s. Was a bit of a dive as I recall.
http://film.list.co.uk/article/41700-outside-bet/ The cinematic equivalent of the clumps of horse dung that characters repeatedly step into for the cheapest of laughs, Outside Bet is strictly a non-runner in terms of light entertainment.
In this painfully naïve British comedy, Bob Hoskins painfully overplays his ‘geezer’ card as Percy ‘Smudge’ Smith, the head of a band of Fleet Street hacks who unwisely pass their redundancy money to wide-boy Bax (Calum MacNab), who invests it on a racehorse called the Mumper. The stakes rise for the group when Bax’s father Threads (Philip Davis) is diagnosed with cancer, leading to a predictable climax in which several generations of British stars, including Rita Tushingham, Jenny Agutter and Adam Deacon, cheer on the Mumper in the hope of getting their money back.
Writer/director Sacha Bennett sets his story against the privatisation of the British press in the mid-80s, but his ham-fisted treatment of the politics amounts to nothing more than sub-Full Monty posturing. Jaw-droppingly low production values (the race-track finale looks like it was filmed in an empty field) are matched with dated misogynist comedy, bargain-basement sentimentality and glib ‘money-solves-everything’ moralising, ensuring Outside Bet falls at the first hurdle.
http://film.list.co.uk/article/41700-outside-bet/ The cinematic equivalent of the clumps of horse dung that characters repeatedly step into for the cheapest of laughs, Outside Bet is strictly a non-runner in terms of light entertainment.
In this painfully naïve British comedy, Bob Hoskins painfully overplays his ‘geezer’ card as Percy ‘Smudge’ Smith, the head of a band of Fleet Street hacks who unwisely pass their redundancy money to wide-boy Bax (Calum MacNab), who invests it on a racehorse called the Mumper. The stakes rise for the group when Bax’s father Threads (Philip Davis) is diagnosed with cancer, leading to a predictable climax in which several generations of British stars, including Rita Tushingham, Jenny Agutter and Adam Deacon, cheer on the Mumper in the hope of getting their money back.
Writer/director Sacha Bennett sets his story against the privatisation of the British press in the mid-80s, but his ham-fisted treatment of the politics amounts to nothing more than sub-Full Monty posturing. Jaw-droppingly low production values (the race-track finale looks like it was filmed in an empty field) are matched with dated misogynist comedy, bargain-basement sentimentality and glib ‘money-solves-everything’ moralising, ensuring Outside Bet falls at the first hurdle.
does anybody remember that irish film about them buying a greyhound to race, simular cirucumstances to outside bet. no money and all that and borrowing of 'ard gezzers'. done about 10 years ago i think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdbLDUp1BjY
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http://film.list.co.uk/article/41700-outside-bet/
The cinematic equivalent of the clumps of horse dung that characters repeatedly step into for the cheapest of laughs, Outside Bet is strictly a non-runner in terms of light entertainment.
In this painfully naïve British comedy, Bob Hoskins painfully overplays his ‘geezer’ card as Percy ‘Smudge’ Smith, the head of a band of Fleet Street hacks who unwisely pass their redundancy money to wide-boy Bax (Calum MacNab), who invests it on a racehorse called the Mumper. The stakes rise for the group when Bax’s father Threads (Philip Davis) is diagnosed with cancer, leading to a predictable climax in which several generations of British stars, including Rita Tushingham, Jenny Agutter and Adam Deacon, cheer on the Mumper in the hope of getting their money back.
Writer/director Sacha Bennett sets his story against the privatisation of the British press in the mid-80s, but his ham-fisted treatment of the politics amounts to nothing more than sub-Full Monty posturing. Jaw-droppingly low production values (the race-track finale looks like it was filmed in an empty field) are matched with dated misogynist comedy, bargain-basement sentimentality and glib ‘money-solves-everything’ moralising, ensuring Outside Bet falls at the first hurdle.
Brilliant.
And Adam, seeing as you hate Daylight Robbery so much, I can't believe you like this!!!!
:-)
See the trailer ages ago and looked a good film.
Only caught a glimpse I am sure it said
Renton, sickboy
And then a date
Should've paid more attention but was driving
I hope there will be