Churchill: The Hollywood Years
| Churchill: The Hollywood Years | |
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UK Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Peter Richardson |
| Produced by | Jonathan Cavendish |
| Written by | Peter Richardson Pete Richens |
| Starring |
Christian Slater Neve Campbell Miranda Richardson |
| Music by |
Simon Boswell Rod Melvin |
| Cinematography | Cinders Forshaw |
| Edited by |
Geoff Hogg Duncan Shepherd John Wilson |
| Distributed by | Pathe Films |
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Release date
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3 December 2004 (UK) |
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Running time
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84 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £148,326 |
Churchill: The Hollywood Years is a 2004 film, directed by Peter Richardson. It stars Christian Slater as Winston Churchill, and Neve Campbell as Elizabeth II. Miranda Richardson and Antony Sher also co star.
The film is a satire on the Hollywood take on history, such as U-571 (portraying the capture of an Enigma machine as being by the Americans rather than the British) and Pearl Harbor (where American participation in the Battle of Britain was exaggerated).
In this parody, the British court and war government consist mainly of idiots and traitors. Adolf Hitler moves into Buckingham Palace and plans to marry into the Windsors. A US Army officer claims the cigar-smoking iconic PM was an actor named Roy Bubbles however, he was actually USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill who had stolen an enigma code machine and then almost single-handedly won a very alternative battle for Britain
It was filmed between 24 March and 12 May 2003. Mainly filmed at the Royal William Yard, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Phillip French writing in The Observer called the film "a hit and miss affair" Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian gave it three stars and said "It's wildly uneven and very broad, but there are some laughs in Peter Richardson's Comic Strip fantasy of Churchill's real life as a kickass action hero." However Nev Peirce on the BBC's website panned the film, saying "Sadly, Peter Richardson suffers the fate of many satirists; in trying to mock bad movies, he's simply made a bad movie" The film grossed only £148,326 on its opening weekend across 170 screens in the UK
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