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Bula Quo! (2013)

Bula Quo! poster
Directed by
Stuart St. Paul
Genre
comedy film, action film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
12
Rating
4.1 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A British band gets caught up in a criminal plot while on vacation in Fiji. The film is an adventure comedy built around Status Quo.

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What happens

Bula Quo!, also known as Guitars, Guns and Paradise, is a 2013 British adventure comedy film cowritten and directed by Stuart St Paul and starring Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman and Status Quo musicians Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. The film was expressly made to work as a tax deductible write-off for the band Status Quo, and the shooting budget was part of what was owed to the UK taxman. The film's production used to its advantage a scheme set up by the previous Labour Government of Gordon Brown, which allowed taxpayers to invest a certain amount of money in low-to-medium budget United Kingdom films as an incentive to expand the British film industry and/or keep people working steadily on it. Although Bula Quo! was made primarily in Fiji it was classified as a UK production because of the use of a primarily British cast and film crew. Several other (technically) British films released at the time were made using this same tax incentives, including Hitchcock (2012) and Cleanskin (2012). Bula Quo! was a box-office disaster at the time of its release, and received mostly negative reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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