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Porridge (1979)

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Summary: Fletcher's doing five years for breaking and entering. He's quick witted and never short of a trick or two to make his life that little bit easier. Lennie Godber's his cellmate who Fletch often teases but also protects in a father-like way. The other two main characters are prison officers; MacKay's a militarily strict type, keen to adhere to the rules, while Mr Barrowclough is almost a complete opposite and easily manipulated by Fletcher. (imdb)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Directed By: Dick Clement
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na OkkCoCa
58
 T5
The TV series remains of the finest British sitcoms of the 1970's. This feature length version is okay, but never gets anywhere close to the entertainment value of the series. It was however filmed at the prison in my home town of Chelmsford, so a few bonus marks thrown in there!
na Nick91
65
 T3
na tradingair
8
 T9
na Colinzealuk
68
 T6
na dog
100
 T8
na afx237vi
50
 T4
Decent enough, but it falls a bit short when compared to the TV series. There just aren't enough laughs and the story takes too long to get going. The two newly introduced characters (one guard, one con) seem fairly pointless and just become spare parts once the football match strand is introduced. Seems to me that you could have compressed the whole thing into a regular 30 minute episode and not missed much.
na Richnerd
50
 T4
na DLawrence
78
 T6
na RichXTuta
87
 T10
na TheDiceman
60
 T7
Decent film version of the legendary TV show.
na robharr
85
 T10
na 4444444
60
 T7
na imdb
69
 T7
na rollsroyce
80
 T8
na MalkavNO
60
 T4
Average Tier 6.53 from 15 Rankings rss