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  • 2021
  • Front Row Filmed Entertainment
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2021
  • Front Row Filmed Entertainment
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary A frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England's broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that this new territory is as at least as strange & dangerous as he is. Attempting to locate a certain person and a certain artifact for his insistent...

Directed By: Mitch Jenkins

Written By: Alan Moore

  • 2021
  • Front Row Filmed Entertainment
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2021
  • Front Row Filmed Entertainment
  • 1 h 55 m

The Show

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Summary A frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England's broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that this new territory is as at least as strange & dangerous as he is. Attempting to locate a certain person and a certain artifact for his insistent...

Directed By: Mitch Jenkins

Written By: Alan Moore

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90
Oct 8, 2020
Even with some questions left dangling, The Show offers a supremely intoxicating adventure, ripe with imagination, rank with decadence, and rabid with more, more Moore.
By Kristy Puchko FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 13, 2021
This dense but witty film is never caught short for a flourish.
By Phil Hoad FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 29, 2024
Fun if perhaps a little too tongue-in-cheek for its own good, the results will no doubt appeal most to Moore fans who’ll revel in his Byzantine plotting, noirish tropes and other signature elements.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 29, 2024
Exuberant as it is, The Show treats its basic premise earnestly enough not to come across as merely spoofy. And there’s some considerable wit in the script.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
58
Moore and Jenkins are obviously aiming higher than a self-aware noir pastiche, or at least something off to the side of one. Yet those elements of the movie are a lot more enjoyable than sort-of-dream sequences featuring yet another guy in clown makeup.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lex Films, EMU Films
Release Date Aug 26, 2021
Duration 1 h 55 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/TheShowFilmOfficial/
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Awards

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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