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  • 1987
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 1987
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

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 a vi...

Directed By: Stephen Frears

Written By: Hanif Kureishi

  • 1987
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 1987
  • Cinecom Pictures
  • 1 h 41 m

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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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 a vi...

Directed By: Stephen Frears

Written By: Hanif Kureishi

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
67
60% Positive
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33% Mixed
5 Reviews
7% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
67
60% Positive
9 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
7% Negative
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100
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]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Hal Hinson FULL REVIEW
75
Sammy and Rosie is a writer's film, with all the pluses and minuses that go with that status. The language is marvelously clear and the structure exquisitely wrought; on the other hand, the film lacks the sense of discovery and spontaneity a more creative director might have brought to it.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
70
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]
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
60
Made in a documentary manner as styled as a Hollywood musical, the movie is hyperconscious of art, of politics, of itself, and at times it's exasperatingly affectless.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
40
Tossed together from a Hanif Kureishi screenplay which labours so many right-on themes that none leave their mark
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10
Stunningly, ponderously bad.
By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Channel Four Films, Working Title Films
Release Date Oct 30, 1987
Duration 1 h 41 m
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Tagline As London burns...
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