The Fitzroy
“A post-apocalyptic comedy about the last refuge for a traditional seaside holiday.”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 64, rated by 1 admin.
Higher CrapScores mean more entertainingly bad. How we score movies.
A submarine serves as a seaside hotel after poisonous gas makes ordinary holidays impossible. Its overworked bellboy tries to keep the establishment functioning while the guests generate fresh problems. The retro design is inviting, while the broad British farce requires a taste for pantomime-level behaviour.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5.5/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 4.5/10
- Dialogue
- 6.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 7/10
“The last seaside hotel has exceptionally demanding ventilation requirements.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 64
Synopsis and movie facts
The Fitzroy is a live action black comedy set in an alternative post-apocalyptic 1950s. The world is covered in poisonous gas, and the last place for a traditional seaside holiday is The Fitzroy hotel, an abandoned submarine just off the coast of England. The film centers on Bernard, the hotel's bellboy, cook, maintenance man and general dogsbody, as he faces a constant battle to keep the decaying hotel airtight and afloat. But when he falls in love with a murderous guest, he is thrown into a mad day of lies, backstabbing and chaos. As Bernard struggles to hide her murders from the other guests and suspicious authorities, his world literally begins to sink around him.
- Released
- 2017
- Directed by
- Andrew Harmer
- Running time
- 93 min
Starring
- Jan Anderson as Sonya
- Kenneth Collard as The Inspector
- Cerith Flinn as Bernard
- Carol Robb as Mildred
- David Gant as Mr. Thompson
- David Schaal as Cecil
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 425840.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review describes the 1950s seaside kitsch and finds the humour broadly pantomimic.
Comments 0
Log in to join the conversation.
No comments yet. Somebody has to go first.