Having a Wild Weekend

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Having a Wild Weekend

1965,

1h 31m,

Musical/

Comedy

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British TV stuntmen (Barbara Ferris) hit the road with a bored actress (David Lodge), whose manager (Lenny Davidson) reports her kidnapped.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Apr 1, 2021

3/5

Like the early movies of Godard, it is obsessed with the language of publicity: advertising, magazines, the mass media.

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Pauline Kael

McCall's

Sep 20, 2023

It is one of the few films of 1965 that linger in the memory -- a forlorn little Cinderella that the public never took to the big boxoffice ball.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

Aug 13, 2019

The photography and the direction are atrocious, the jokes painful, the structure really chaotic, the spontaneity arthritic, and The Dave Clark Five remarkably uncharming and unwitty.

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MFB Critics

Monthly Film Bulletin

Jan 25, 2018

Two things make this an intriguingly unusual teenage musical: it is consistently worth looking at, and it finds intelligent expression for a genuinely youthful point of view.

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Aug 6, 2008

4/5

A fascinating outburst of strangeness of almost Fellini-esque proportions.

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Harry L

Feb 3, 2019

Definitely a period piece that does not hold up to its counterpart from the same period A Hard Day's Night. This stars the Dave Clark Five but features no actual performance footage of them playing their songs. Most of it just seems to be Dave Clark playing "Steve" roaming around with the main character blonde girl. There is no real plot it's just them going to different locations and then everybody dancing around to Dave Clark Five music. The only song of note featured in the film is Catch Us If You Can. Not a good movie even if you are a fan of the Dave Clark Five. Avoid it unless you really want to see footage of the U.K in 1965 or are a real die hard fan.

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Synopsis

British TV stuntmen (Barbara Ferris) hit the road with a bored actress (David Lodge), whose manager (Lenny Davidson) reports her kidnapped.

Director: John Boorman
Producer: David Deutsch
Screenwriter: Peter Nichols
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 18, 1965, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2017
Runtime: 1h 31m

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