list A Fine Madness's Recent Activity - Spout http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around A Fine Madness on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg A Fine Madness's Recent Activity - Spout http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 Film:A Fine Madness http://www.spout.com/films/A_Fine_Madness/11594/default.aspx Title: A Fine Madness
Year: 1966
Director: Irvin Kershner
Plot: Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted by the women in his life. Driven to a nervous breakdown, he seeks help from the medical establishment -- and ends up a babbling shell of his former self. The film takes scattered potshots at a repressive society that forces the truly creative among us into near-madness; at times, it is sidesplittingly funny, though never quite as potent as the Elliot Baker novel upon which it is based. Sean Connery is brilliant, but the public wanted James Bond to behave himself, thus the film didn't do as well at the box office as it should have. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:18:56 GMTA Fine Madness1966Irvin Kershner<a href="/players/P____10646/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sean Connery</a> attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted by the women in his life. Driven to a nervous breakdown, he seeks help from the medical establishment -- and ends up a babbling shell of his former self. The film takes scattered potshots at a repressive society that forces the truly creative among us into near-madness; at times, it is sidesplittingly funny, though never quite as potent as the Elliot Baker novel upon which it is based. <a href="/players/P____10646/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sean Connery</a> is brilliant, but the public wanted James Bond to behave himself, thus the film didn't do as well at the box office as it should have. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide11http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t77613ystwa.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/A_Fine_Madness/11594/default.aspxFilm Spout Tag:masterpiece http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/masterpiece/MemberTagFilms.aspxmasterpiece
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