The Likely Lads (1976)
- Directed by
- Michael Tuchner
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two old friends, Bob and Terry, reunite in their hometown. They catch up on old times and deal with the changes in their lives. A comedy about friendship and growing older.
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What happens
The Likely Lads is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. It is a spin-off from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, although it has the same title as the earlier 1960s British television series The Likely Lads, of which Whatever was the sequel. The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; and the principal roles of Bob and Terry, as well as those of Bob's wife Thelma and Terry's sister Audrey, are played by the original television cast. This film was the final screen appearance of Bewes and Bolam together. At the time of the film's release, the two had, according to Bewes, fallen out over something he had said in an interview with the press and never spoken to each other again, but when Bewes died in November 2017, Bolam denied there was a rift between the two men. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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