- Eat the Rich (film)
Infobox_Film
name=Eat the Rich
director=Peter Richardson
writer=Peter Richardson Pete Richens
starring=Nosher Powell Ronald Allen Nigel Planer Miranda Richardson
producer=Tim Van Rellim
distributor=CBS /Fox Video Ltd.
released=October 1987 (UK TV premiere)
runtime=90 min.
language=English
budget=
imdb_id=0092944"Eat the Rich" is Peter Richardson's 1987 British comedy, from the team behind the popular television series, "
The Comic Strip Presents ".The film features a number of cameos including appearances from the likes of
Miranda Richardson andNigel Planer as vileDHSS clerks,Robbie Coltrane as the ultimateyuppie ,Rik Mayall as a union boss,Paul McCartney ,Shane MacGowan ,Jennifer Saunders ,Jimmy Fagg ,Kathy Burke ,Koo Stark ,Dawn French ,Bill Wyman ,Jools Holland ,Adrian Edmondson andLemmy .ynopsis
Set in and around a
London restaurant named 'Bastards', the staff begin to wonder whether or not they will get away with cooking the customers.Nosher Powell plays theHome Secretary , a menacing, beer-swilling, fornicating, lovable lout who has his own no-nonsense way of dealing with trouble, usually with his fists. He's the darling of the voters, the press and the gorgeous Fiona (Fiona Richmond), a glamorousKGB agent.Alex (
Alan Pellay ), a disgruntled waiter at 'Bastards', falls on hard times. Subject to daily contempt and disgust of the upper class customers, Alex and her cohorts attempt to go on a rampage.Nosher has enemies too; including the sinister Commander Fortune (
Ronald Allen ) who plots a people's revolution with a difference and General Karprov (Dave Beard) and Spider (Lemmy ) plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail Home Secretary's campaign.Cast
*
Les Bubb - Waiter
*Kathy Burke - Kathy
*Robbie Coltrane - Jeremy
*Sean Chapman - Mark
*Rick Mayall - Micky
*Adrian Edmondson - Charles
*Dawn French - Debbie Draws
*Paul McCartney - Banquet guest
*Lemmy - Spider
*Jools Holland - Sun reporter
*Miranda Richardson - DHSS BlondeTrivia
* Also the name of an underground culture festival in Trondheim, Norway, focusing primarily on punk and reggae music.
* Also the name of a 1997 book on economics byP.J. O'Rourke .
* Nosher Powell was well known as a stuntman & stunt coordinator in British cinema & television. He plays an exaggerated version of himself in the film.Release Notes
The VHS release of the film had a reversible cover.
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