Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Name: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 30, 1987
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Ayub Khan-Din, Badi Uzzaman, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Meera Syal

1987

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Cinecom Pictures | Release Date: October 30, 1987

Starring: Ayub Khan-Din, Badi Uzzaman, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Meera Syal, Roland Gift, Shashi Kapoor, Suzette Llewellyn, Tessa Wojtczak, Wendy Gazelle

Summary: Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for aSammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Raffi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.… Expand

Director: Stephen Frears

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 101 min

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100

Will Robinson Sheff

The film's triumphantly perverse climax, in fact, is just that: a three-tiered split-screen of three couples shagging that resembles nothing so much as a national flag and is set to a rendition of "My Girl" sung by a black trio dressed as colonial soldiers. When it hits such giddily subversive high notes, Sammy and Rosie ... transcends provocation and bursts into ecstatic revelation. Read full review

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Jay Scott

Sammy and Rosie is not only the best British film of the year, it's one of the best films of the year from any country, period, a raucously erotic dirge belted into the gaping mouth of a tomb. [30 Oct 1987]

Hal Hinson

Sammy and Rosie has a fierce, scrambled intelligence. In this story about a group of interlocking characters in a London neighborhood on the fringe, Kureishi and Frears rack up all of their views on sex, politics, colonialism, social injustice and rebellion like balls in a game of pool, then send them flying. And they seem less interested in pocketing shots than in watching the balls ricochet and collide. Read full review

David Ansen

Ambitious, unsettling, funny and perhaps too smart for its own good. With so much on its satirical agenda, it tends to spin out of orbit. [9 Nov 1987]

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Frears levitates the film’s harsh realism with a fantastical counterpoint in touches like the ghost of a tortured labor leader who haunts Rafi from the outset, and a band of gypsy buskers who serenade the ongoing anarchy. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Recklessly biting off more than they can possibly chew, the filmmakers still give us a memorable apocalyptic view of 1987 England. Read full review

Sheila Benson

Stunningly, ponderously bad. Read full review

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