Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)

Synopsis of Blame It on the Bellboy

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown) is a professional hit man. Orton, Horton and Lawton all check into adjoining rooms at a posh Venetian hotel. Bellboy Bronson Pinchot, whose grasp of the English language is virtually nonexistent, delivers the wrong messages to the three men. That's why Orton is trying to sell a valuable piece of property to a roomful of mafiosi, Horton is "paired up" with an unwitting female real estate broker, and Lawton is preparing to rub out a hapless dating-service subscriber......Written by director Mark Herman, this old-style doorslamming farce might have passed muster as a dinner-theater attraction, but on film it comes across as strained and tiresome. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:

78 mins

Director(s):

Mark Herman

Writer(s):

Mark Herman

Producer(s):

Jennifer Howarth, Steve Abbott

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

PG13(Adult Situations, Profanity, Violence)

Categories:

Comedy

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