Synopsis

Storyline:

Richard Thorncroft is a has-been British television actor who used to be famous in the late 1980s for playing the charismatic title character in the Isle of Man detective show Mindhorn, a character with a robotic eye that can literally “see the truth”. Unfortunately, after becoming a little too pompous and arrogant, Richard ends up insulting the Isle of Man and his fellow cast members on the Wogan chat-show, including his on-screen and real-life love interest Patricia Deville (Essie Davies), his stuntman (Simon Farnaby), and bit-part co-star Peter Easterman (Steve Coogan). He decides to leave to try and make it big in Hollywood, but twenty-five years later he’s balding in a flat in North London and has recently been replaced for an orthopaedic sock advertisement by John Nettles, much to his chagrin. He is even more jealous that Easterman now fronts a long-running spin-off show which has far eclipsed the success of Mindhorn. Richard has an unexpected opportunity to reignite his career …

Written by

Edward Hunter

User Reviews: I love this film. It’s not perfect or even a fantastic film, but the writing acting and style *was* fantastic. Sadly it has many drawbacks, the directing and lighting was average, it had a lot of useless scenes and one big one was the ending; Don’t get me wrong it was a great ending but the villain characters motivation was non-existent, because the way she was trying to solve her problem was just creating a very very similar problem. Getting a better director and solving those problems would probably make it an 8, and maybe even a 9 if they got someone like Edgar Write, but alas they didn’t and we have what we have, but what we have is still a fun 7/10 film that everyone should watch.