Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (1987)

Original title

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Directed by

Stephen Frears

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

52 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two dim-witted friends get into trouble with a hitman who moves in next door. They try to survive his violent antics.

zanyabsurdwittylightheartedquirkycomicalfast-pacedsilly

What happens

Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door is a 1987 comedy film made for British television as part of The Comic Strip Presents... series. It was briefly screened theatrically in late 1987 and was broadcast on Channel 4 on 5 March 1988. It was released on VHS in the late 1980s, and became available on DVD when the entire Comic Strip Presents... series was released as a box set in the UK in June 2005. It has also been repeated occasionally on the Paramount Comedy Channel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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