Honest (film)

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Honest

Directed by	David A. Stewart
Produced by	Dick Clement Ian La Frenais
Written by	Dick Clement Ian La Frenais David A. Stewart Karen Lee Street
Starring	Nicole Appleton Natalie Appleton
Music by	David A. Stewart
Cinematography	David Johnson
Editing by	David Martin
Distributed by	Pathé
Release dates	26 May 2000
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Honest is a black comedy crime film released in 2000. The film was the directorial debut of ex-Eurythmics member Dave Stewart and starred Peter Facinelli and three members of the British/Canadian girl group All Saints: Melanie Blatt and Canadian sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton.

The plot follows the antics of three gun-toting, streetwise, saucy sisters in Swinging London in the late 1960s. The film is most notable for the topless scenes by the Appleton sisters.^[1] Blatt and the Appletons also contributed to three songs on the film's soundtrack.

Honest received blistering reviews with one critic remarking, "It is the worst kind of rubbish, the kind that makes you angry you have wasted 105 minutes of your life."^[2] However, the Sunday Times gave it 4 stars and called it a "cult classic" à la Amazon Women on the Moon. The film was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

The low budget (£3 million) film flopped in its opening week in the UK, earning only £111,309 on 220 screens.

Cast

Nicole Appleton - Gerry Chase
Natalie Appleton - Mandy Chase
Melanie Blatt - Jo Chase
Derek Deadman - Night Watchman
Graham Fletcher-Cook - Market Trader
Vinny Reed - Stills Photographer
Karina Iszatt - Body Painted Girl
Peter Facinelli - Daniel Wheaton
Rick Warden - Baz
Jonathan Cake - Andrew Pryce-Stevens
Willie Ross - Woodbine
Annette Badland - Rose
Corin Redgrave - Duggie Ord
Matt Bardock - Cedric

References

↑ "Top 10 Worst Vanity Projects" "
↑ Honest (2000) - News
↑ "Festival de Cannes: Honest". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.

External links

Honest at the Internet Movie Database
Honest at Rotten Tomatoes

v t e Works by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais

Sitcoms	The Likely Lads (1964–66) Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74) Porridge (1974–77) Thick as Thieves (1974) Going Straight (1978) Tracey Takes On... (1996-99) Parents of the Band (2008–09)

Other series	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004) Lovejoy (1986–94) Archangel (2005) The Rotters' Club (2005)

Films	The Jokers (1967) Otley (1968) To Catch a Spy (1971) Villain (1971) The Likely Lads (1976) Porridge (1979) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) Never Say Never Again (1983) Water (1985) The Commitments (1991) Excess Baggage (1997) Still Crazy (1998) Honest (2000) Goal! (2005) Flushed Away (2006) Across the Universe (2007) The Bank Job (2008) Bunyan and Babe (2011) Killing Bono (2011)

Theatre work	Billy (1974)

As script editors	Astronauts (1981–82)

Other film work	Bullshot (1983) Vice Versa (1988)

Clement alone	Anyone for Denis? (director, 1982)

La Frenais alone	Percy's Progress (film, 1971) My Old Man (with others, 1974–75) The Other 'Arf (with others, 1980–84) Spender (with others, 1991–93)

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