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Keith Lemon: The Film (2012)

Keith Lemon: The Film poster
Directed by
Paul Angunawela
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
16
Rating
2.9 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A TV personality named Keith Lemon becomes successful after gluing a lemon sweet to his phone. The film follows his rise from rags to riches with help from his best friend, his girlfriend, and a guardian angel.

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What happens

Keith Lemon: The Film is a 2012 British comedy film written and directed by Paul Angunawela, and co-written by and starring Leigh Francis as television personality Keith Lemon. The film co-stars Verne Troyer as his guardian angel (In his final film appearance before his death in April 2018), Archimedes, Kevin Bishop as his best friend, Dougie, Laura Aikman as Keith's girlfriend Rosie and Kelly Brook as herself. The film also features a selection of celebrity cameos, including appearances by David Hasselhoff, Ronan Keating, Gary Barlow, Peter Andre, Fearne Cotton, Emma Bunton and Jedward, amongst others. The film's plot surrounds Lemon's rags to riches story, after achieving success on the basis of a mobile phone with a lemon sweet stuck on the back. It received a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. On 13 January 2014, Francis confirmed that the writing of a sequel had been completed. He also announced at the 2015 National Television Awards on 21 January 2015 that the sequel had been pushed back and that he would instead focus on other projects. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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