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Amazon Review By
Harold Wolf "Doc" (Wells, IN)
A Private Function (DVD)
Rhubarb leaves cause pig flatulation and diarrhea. Just part of the jollification of this story. A private function (dinner) is planned in the leanest of times, when Britain's meat rationing followed WWII, 1947. The humor is quick and sometimes bathroom style. When the illegal pig is discovered by a new local chiropodist, wimpy, hen-pecked Gilbert (Michael Palin-'Monty Python')& snob wife Joyce (Maggie Smith-'Harry Potter' 'Hook' 'Becoming Jane') decide to steal the bacon. Favorite Maggie Smith line: "Take your clothes off. Strip. There will be blood."
The pig raising (all-star) town conspirators:
Dr. Swaby (Denholm Elliott-'Child's Christmas in Wales' 'Indiana Jones')
CPA Henry (Richard Griffiths-'Pie in the Sky' 'Harry Potter' 'Bleak House')
Farmer Sutcliff (Tony Haygarth-'Emmerdale Farm' ' 'Bleak House')
Solicitor Frank (John Normington-'Edward the King' 'Atonement'')
Inspector Noble (Jim Carter-'Cranford''The Way we Live Now'' )
Butcher Nuttol (Pete Postlethwaite- ''The Lost World:Jurassic Park')
Meat Inspector Wormold and green pig painter who wants Doris (Bill Paterson-'Law & Order''the Killing Fields'' ''Amazing Grace') is ever the swine sleuth. Mother, age 74, (Liz Smith-'Lark Rise to Candleford'') plays her typical dotty old gal. She'll curl your tail.

The cast makes this movie, makes it fun, makes it insanely comical, quirky, ribald, and with only one nude butt scene, unless you count all of those shots of Betty (the pig). See the attempted gassing kill using a kitchen range.
Another great dialogue bit: Swaby about Gilbert "jaunty, toe-nail clipping little sod. Biking around. You festering, bunyon scrapping, little pillock."
All this to get a chop dinner celebrating the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Phillip. Plenty of hamming it up in this DVD. .