At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 11 nominations total
Ciarán Hinds
- Cory
- (as Ciaran Hinds)
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Turpin
- (as Roger Ashton Griffiths)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe four title characters were named for the actors and actress writer and director Peter Greenaway originally wanted to play them. Richard (The Cook) was for Richard Bohringer, the only one of Greenaway's original choices retained in the final movie. Albert (The Thief) was named after Albert Finney, while Georgina (His Wife) was for Georgina Hale. Michael (The Lover) was named, interestingly enough, for Sir Michael Gambon, who Greenaway eventually re-cast as Albert.
- GoofsWhen Albert (Michael Gambon) goes into the ladies' toilet and starts throwing women out of the cubicles, the second one has, as you would expect, her underwear around her knees. But her skirt rides right up, revealing that she is still wearing her underwear and that the ones below are a prop.
- Crazy creditsClosing credits epilogue: "And a special thanks to those very many people who patiently & repeatedly performed as patients & nurses in the hospital ward, and as diners in the Hollandais Restaurant."
- Alternate versionsAn edited, R-rated version is available on video.
Featured review
I sat transfixed by this film's ability to become increasingly depraved, always without any redeeming quality whatsoever. We would have left except that I became fascinated by the ability of the director and writer to hit bottom and then keep drilling. The story is familiar enough but there are no protagonists. There really are no antagonists either. Just a bunch of people you care nothing about doing things you don't want to know about. If a friend did this stuff to another human and wanted to tell you about it, you would scream for him/her to stop.
To top it off it has a score by Michael Nyman who had just enough talent to write one bad film score and retreads it for every film that a producer is stupid enough to hire him to score.
To top it off it has a score by Michael Nyman who had just enough talent to write one bad film score and retreads it for every film that a producer is stupid enough to hire him to score.
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- Also known as
- El cocinero, el ladrón, su esposa y su amante
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,724,701
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $252,223
- Apr 8, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $8,526,030
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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