Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.
Acting
Helena Bonham Carter's delightfully unhinged bohemian turn.
Production
Gloriously tacky late-80s millionaire interiors.
Director
Randal Kleiser
Jesse Birdsall
Gavin Lamb
Lynn Redgrave
Joan
Helena Bonham Carter
Minerva Munday
Jane Horrocks
Jenny
Pat Heywood
Mrs. Lamb
Bryan Pringle
Mr. Lamb
Shirley Anne Field
Anne
Peter Cook
Mr. Adrian
John Gielgud
Sir Gordon Munday
Judy Parfitt
Lady Stella Munday
Ian Redford
Bill
Rupert Holliday-Evans
Peter
Aimée Delamain
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Randal Kleiser also directed Grease, making this his pivot from slick musicals to British sexual awkwardness.
This captures a specific late-80s moment when class anxiety in British cinema got packaged as quirky rom-com material.
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