| Christie Malry's Own Double Entry | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Tickell
Actors: Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield, Mattia Sbragia, Marcello Mazzarella
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 66093
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 91
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: ID3335VPDVD
UPC: 014381333527
EAN: 0014381333527
ASIN: B000FUF7BC
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: August 29, 2006
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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Product Description
In this daring black comedy working-class bank clerk Christie Malry (Nick Moran Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) transforms his drab life with the accounting principle that every debit must be balanced with a credit. From keying a car that nearly ran him down to terrorist acts the indignant Malry avenges the imagined and real slights against him. Even as he falls in love with the overwhelmingly optimistic Carol he continues the outrageous misadventures that soon spiral out of control. This adaptation from B.S. Johnson's cult novel is sure to have viewers glued to their seats from its quirky comical opening to its startling end.System Requirements:Running Time 94 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 014381333527 Manufacturer No: ID3335VPDVD
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The book certainly must be much better July 19, 2008
for, this movie is pretty awful. It's difficult, really, to say what the story is about; although, what happens is a severely alienated young man goes about 'setting the ledger straight.' This young man was born and raised under difficult circumstances to a mother who, now terminally ill, is out of her mind either through insanity or drink. Already disturbed, his mother's death triggers a prolonged psychotic event and, having taken accounting classes at the urging of his best friend now deceased, the lad creates a ledger in which life's slings and arrows become fodder for the balance sheet. For instance, if he is run off the road by a Rolls Royce, he must scratch the paint of a Rolls Royce to compensate or balance the ledger, and so on. Eventually he takes to killing large numbers of people. Meanwhile, the movie is intersticed with scenes supposedly involving Leonardo DaVinci and Luca Pacioli, the Franciscan monk who was responsible for systematizing the double entry ledger system; and of scenes from childhood indicating his early proclivity for mischief. It isn't clear whether these are the products of a fevered imagination or portrayals of theoretical 'actual events'. In either guise they are meaningless and don't propel the story. One suspects this movie attempts to find the success of 'Trainspotting' through its use of these jumpshots and the shambolic storyline. It fails abjectly possibly because of the relative strengths of the respective novels. This one was penned in an 'experimental' style which evidently eschews good story-telling. This rates two stars because there is going to be a small number of people who will contrive some reason for thinking either the movie cool; likely the same sort who extolled the virtues of 'Eraserhead.' Make no mistake, this is a genuinely poor movie not worth watching, definitely not worth buying.
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