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Bert Rigby, You're a Fool is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Carl Reiner released in USA on 24 february 1989 with Robert Lindsay

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
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Released in USA 24 february 1989
Length 1h34
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating58% 2.904812.904812.904812.904812.90481

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool is a 1989 American musical film directed by Carl Reiner, and starring Robert Lindsay in the title role.

Synopsis

Bert Rigby is a miner in a small dying town of Langmore in northern England, with aspirations to show business. He tells the story in flashback, while sitting in a bar. He lives with his mother, a musical fan, and next door to his sweetheart, Laurel Pennington. She lives above the pub where she works, and they have a bomb shelter straddling their back yards where they have secret meetings. While his fellows are on strike once again, Bert decides to try his luck in show-biz. He gets his chance when he performs in an amateur show, singing "Isn't It Romantic?", and his first appearance on stage goes all wrong, when his nose starts bleeding after an injury sustained playing football - but the audience loves him anyway. So he starts as a comedian in a traveling amateur show for £50 a night, touring around the country with his manager, Sid Trample, and Sid's wife Tess. Bert repeats the act he did in his first appearance, until he tires of it and starts doing a Buster Keaton imitation. During the tour they come across a crew filming a contraceptives commercial.

Actors

Robert Lindsay

(Bert Rigby)Robbie Coltrane

(Sid Trample)Bruno Kirby

(Kyle DeForest)Cathryn Bradshaw

(Laurel Pennington)Corbin Bernsen

(Jim Shirley)
And :
Anne Bancroft
Jackie Gayle
Carmen du Sautoy
Liz Smith
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