Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999 film)

Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Film Poster
Directed by Willi Patterson
Produced by Bill Kenwright
Written by Geoff Morrow
Starring
Music by Rolfe Kent
Cinematography Vernon Layton
Edited by Peter Beston
Production
company
Aviator Films
Bill Kenwright Films
Distributed by BWE Distribution Inc.
Curb Entertainment
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release date
  • 12 February 1999 (1999-02-12)
(UK)
Running time
 95 min.
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $7,000,000 (estimated)[1]
Box office £961,609 (UK) (28 February 1999)[2]

Don't Go Breaking My Heart is a 1999 British film, starring Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove and Charles Dance. It was directed by Willi Patterson.

Plot

Suzanne, a beautiful widow, has to choose between Frank, a philandering dentist, and Tony, a sensitive, failing sports trainer who helps her son.

Cast

Production Notes

Dr. Fiedler played by Tom Conti is a parody of Dr Fassbender played by Peter Sellers in the movie What's New Pussycat?.[3]

Bill Kenwright had to mortgage his own £1 million London home to pay for its production. Geoff Morrow who wrote the screenplay also wrote the 1977-hit Can't Smile Without You. Despite being second billed, Linford Christie only makes a short cameo appearance in the pre-credit scene of the film.[4]

Reception

Julianne Pidduck from Sight & Sound praised several aspects of the film, however she concluded: " But despite all efforts, an uninspired script and uneven direction fail to make Suzanne's unhappy lurches from mourning widow to tender lover plausible."[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Budget". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Budget". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Connections". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Trivia". IMDB. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Pidduck, Julianne. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart". British Film Institute. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
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