Neil Mullarkey Movies

A trio of stand-up comics discover that success is no laughing matter in this comedy-drama. Danny, the manager of a night club in London, makes it his business to find the best and brightest "cutting edge" comedy talent, and thinks that he's found a real prize in Alex (Suki Webster), an attractive woman with a background in improvisational theater who has a keen gift for humor. Alex is encouraged to take a look at Jay and Gus (Neil Mullarkey and David Schneider), a pair of performers who've been doing a "twin" act for some time. Alex's style bounces off Jay and Gus' material perfectly, and soon the threesome are rising stars on the British comedy circuit. But their offstage lives are hardly as harmonious as their club act. Both Jay and Gus are infatuated with Alex, and she's already involved with an artist -- and Gus is having a fling with a model. Meanwhile, romantic frustrations and dueling egos lead the three into infighting and drugs, threatening to derail their success almost as quickly as they began to pick up steam. Comic Act was directed by Jack Hazan, best known for his semi-documentary look at The Clash, Rude Boy. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

This goofy, delightfully sophomoric British spoof on spaghetti westerns was made for only $15,000 and that, along with the booming faux-Morricone score, only heightens the humor. Filmed in lush, green southwestern England (doubling for arid New Mexico), it chronicles the exploits of taciturn hero No Name and his stereotypical Indian side-kick Running Sore as they search for the nefarious villain The Squint. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who meets the girl of his dreams, Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis) when he stops to pick up some haggis for his parents at Meats of the World, a butcher shop where Harriet works. Although he's been neurotically commitment-phobic in the past (dumping one girlfriend because she "smelled like soup"), Charlie thinks Harriet could be the one. That is, until his mother May (Brenda Fricker) and cop best friend Tony (Anthony LaPaglia) begin to suspect that Harriet could be an axe-wielding serial killer who has butchered several husbands. Harriet's wacky sister Rose (Amanda Plummer) and her connection to several of the slayings make Charlie nervous, but he nevertheless pops the question, leading to an eventful honeymoon where all is revealed. Although So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) earned less than $12 million at the U.S. box office, Myers hit upon the Peter Sellers-inspired formula of playing various supporting characters with this film, portraying Charlie's amusingly paranoid father Stuart. The actor repeated the trick with greater success in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and its sequel. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi