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The Lift

  • TV Movie
  • 20072007
  • 30m
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  • Comedy
Part of the BBC's "Tight Spot" comedy season, telling the story of four misfits are stuck in a lift.Part of the BBC's "Tight Spot" comedy season, telling the story of four misfits are stuck in a lift.Part of the BBC's "Tight Spot" comedy season, telling the story of four misfits are stuck in a lift.
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  • Director
    • James Hawes
  • Writer
    • Mark Watson
  • Stars
    • Amar Adatia
    • Rasmus Hardiker
    • Douglas Hodge
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    • James Hawes
  • Writer
    • Mark Watson
  • Stars
    • Amar Adatia
    • Rasmus Hardiker
    • Douglas Hodge
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    Amar Adatia
    Amar Adatia
    • Rajanas Rajan
    Rasmus Hardiker
    Rasmus Hardiker
    • Roccoas Rocco
    Douglas Hodge
    Douglas Hodge
    • Paul Sykesas Paul Sykes
    Siobhan Redmond
    Siobhan Redmond
    • Christabelas Christabel
    Nina Wadia
    Nina Wadia
    • Sunitaas Sunita
    Mark Watson
    Mark Watson
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      • James Hawes
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      • Mark Watson
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    Fairly broad and basic comedy
    A perfectly normal day sees four people in a lift when it breaks down between floors. Paul is a businessman keen to make it to a presentation to avoid a rival getting ahead of him. Sunita has been stuck in two lifts before this one and is an old hand at it now. Christabel is an eccentric woman while Rocco is a hoodie who happens to have a phobia about most things in the lift. As minutes turn into hours, they all start to grate on one another.

    The third film in the BBC's Tight Spot season of one-off comedies sees a typically enclosed scenario with four characters all grating on one another. It is hardly an inspired scenario and accordingly the material doesn't really grip or engage as much as I hoped it would. I think the problem is that the material is not particularly inspiring and the "jokes", such as they are, mostly feel like they were written independently of one another and then rolled into a script. This isn't helped by the way the characters are not particularly convincing or sharp and they end up just bellowing and swinging around within the lift.

    The cast don't really have a lot to work with as a result. Hodge makes the most noise but has little below this. Wadia is a strange character and is quite reserved in her performance. Redmond has a supposedly flamboyant character but does nothing with it and is quite dull. Meanwhile someone thought it a good idea to give Hardiker a terrible accent to work with so that he is left looking like a poor Ali G copy.

    Overall then, a fairly uninspiring comedy. Broad and basic enough to draw a few chuckles but not much more than that.
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    • Apr 12, 2007

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      • March 14, 2007 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Hartswood Films
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      30 minutes
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