Naked - Box Set [1993] |  | Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner
Studio: Imagine Home Entertainments
Category: Video
Buy Used: £36.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 44323
Format: Box Set, Pal
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 120
Discs: 1
EAN: 5025446000044
ASIN: B00008T5RF
Theatrical Release Date: February 1994
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: 24 Hour Dispatch from the UK (051199)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In between his breakthrough film (Life Is Sweet) and his world sensation (Secrets and Lies), filmmaker Mike Leigh created his most abrasive and daring film, Naked. This "Angry Young Man" for the 1990s follows an acidic wanderer (Cannes award winner David Thewlis) who observes a corrosive Britain. An intellectual, bitter film filtered with debauchery and black humour, Naked follows the bemusing Johnny as he crosses in and out of doorways, drifting into old acquaintances and new lost souls. It is more of a character film than sheer entertainment and thus it can be hard to watch but it offers one of the great performances of the 1990s. Thewlis would have been an Oscar shoo-in if he'd worn a dinner jacket and repressed his emotions. He didn't, and his brilliant work went unrecognised in mainstream America. --Doug Thomas
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 I don't get it April 18, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I cannot for the life of me understand all the 5 star reviews. This film comprises a rediculously unbelieveable script populated with unbelieveable, 2-dimensional, cliched characters and executed with heavy, wooden performances. Is this what happens when artistic folk conspire to create "gritty" and "real" drama. The total running time of nearly two and a half hours makes this ham-fisted effort almost unwatchable
 Frustratingly Brilliant February 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A film full of great dialog which is both cruel and witty, and performed with some great character acting. This is without doubt David Thewlis at his best, and one of mike leighs little gems. A dark look in to the lifes of some ordinary people by way of Johnny(Thewlis's character)who frustrated with his own life takes it out on who ever he comes across on his journey. an intelligent and moving work of film, a must see!!.
But so hard to get on DVD region 2, its a British film!!! so why?!!.
Is there a better english actor..? February 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Absolutely brilliant, a gem of a film. Only watched this film once, around the time it came out and i can remember almost every bit of it. David Thewlis has never been better (and thats saying something), his charector is wildly eccentric, manically intelligent and yet he is a dark lost soul aimlessly wondering the streets of London. Ewan Bremner is also great playing a twitchy young lad searching for his girlfriend. But it has to be seen to be believed...
"Were They Cheeky?" November 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not a big fan of extremely short reviews; they have an air of self importance, but I'm about to write one anyway:
The best British film ever made? This is the best film ever made, period.
Watch it and you'll understand, as they say. Despite the moments of (dark) humour, this is bleak cinema which won't be to everyone's taste, but then it IS a Mike Leigh film, so you should know roughly what to expect.
The unfolding tragedies of the story have a similar cumulative impact to a Sarah Kane play, albeit without her subject matter or extremism.
It's an intense, car-crash-hypnotic state of nation address which also arguably forms and ends a kind of trilogy following High Hopes and Secrets and Lies, set against the background of Thatcherite recession; there's probably enough subtext here for a dissertation...
The best British film ever made September 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A bold claim? I don't think so. The actors in this film were at the early stages of their careers, and you can see the promise. A sharp script, and a brooding, menacing and misogynistic performance from David Thewlis will enthrall you. The performance of a lifetime. Darkly comic, I have seen this film over 40 films, and never tire of it. My favourite line being, when Johnny (Thewlis) is asked if he has ever seen a dead body..."Only me own".
Buy this film. You will not regret it.
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