Film

What About Dick?

2012 · 1h 20m · Comedy

“Oscar Wilde on acid,” “like Downton Abbey and almost as funny,” “like E.M Forster on steroids” and “a cross between a budgerigar and an accountant.”

IMDb

7.5

The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano. The Piano narrates the tale of Dick; his two cousins: Emma, an emotionally stunted English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel. When the Reverend Whoopsie discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin, who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.

Suzy Eddie Izzard

Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley

Eric Idle

The Piano

Russell Brand

Dick

Jane Leeves

Emma

Sophie Winkleman

Helena

Tracey Ullman

Aunt Maggie

Tim Curry

Reverend Whoopsie

Billy Connolly

Inspector McGuffin

Jim Piddock

Sergeant Ken Russell

John Du Prez

Tony Palermo

Gene Black

Bernie Dresel

Mike Valerio

Kelleia Sheerin

• Eric IdleDirector · Writer
• Aubrey PowellDirector
• John GoldstoneProducer
• Dane McMasterDirector of Photography
• John Du PrezOriginal Music Composer
• Benny TrickettEditor

Release date

November 13, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Comedy