Merci Docteur Rey! R

Merci Docteur Rey!
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 9, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Image Entertainment

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 548
Rating: F -- An arch, clumsy effort...not only poorly written but ineptly staged... Mercy! Full Review
One Guy's Opinion
Oct 25, 2004
With Yank Andrew Litvack pinch-hitting for producers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, Merci is free of much of that M-I pomposity, replacing it with an unnerving drollness. Full Review
Village Voice
Sep 14, 2004
What is all too apparent on the screen is a general pointless ineptitude, particularly dire in circumstances which require both material and handling to be done with the most effervescent of skill. Full Review
Film Journal International
Sep 26, 2004
Rating: 2/4 -- The grinding noises you hear are the gears of this labored French comedy straining to keep a ridiculously convoluted narrative moving along. Full Review
TV Guide
Feb 25, 2009
Rating: 1/4 -- Brainless and pointless.
New York Post
Sep 21, 2004
Rating: D -- It's as if Litvack tossed all these bad gags, multiple storylines and kooky characters into a blender and hit puree. Full Review
E! Online
Oct 1, 2004
Rating: C+ -- While the cast of Merci Docteur Rey gives it a good shot, this romp stumbles a bit. Full Review
Dallas Morning News
Oct 7, 2004
A limp, smirky lark. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006

Product Description:

Depicting a Paris full of madcap surprises and eccentric characters, first-time director Andrew Litvack delivers a star-studded and wacky coming-out farce. Thomas Beaumont is a 23-year-old man who agrees to an unconventional threesome, accepting money to spy on an erotic encounter which turns violent. Now a witness to murder, Thomas encounters further complications when his opera diva mother (Dianne Wiest, PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS) shows up the next day; she has some very unexpected news of his father, whom Thomas was told had died long ago. Now motivated to find the killer of the previous night's rendezvous, our hapless hero must navigate encounters with his very difficult mother; her best friend (New Wave legend Bulle Ogier, GANG OF FOUR, VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE); a flaky actress (the flute-voiced Jane Birkin, BLOWUP, JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS); and various others who populate every strata of Parisian life, all in pursuit of the ever-elusive truth. Also appearing are Vanessa Redgrave (MRS. DALLOWAY), Simon Callow (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA), and Jerry Hall (BATMAN).

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