I believe this is one of only two write-ups on this site that were done after watching a title in VHS tape format. I felt duty-bound to sit it out since the tape was a gift (a re-gifting, I think) and I was too polite to chuck it aside, yet instinctively avoided watching it for more than a decade. And, so it would seem in hindsight, with good cause! It’s one of those too cute for words, eccentric U.K. stories that get Stateside releases every year, no doubt funded by the British and/or Irish tourist boards. (Someone's got to be behind these ghastly twee things!) This one’s about a mysterious, long unseen/unheard Irish tenor, Ned Beatty?!!, who’s not to be blamed for the obvious gags, cute plot twists and witless dialogue that can’t quite hide the exceptionally inept and charmless leading man. Was this a vanity production?
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