Eric Idle

Eric Idle

Date of Birth: 29 Mar 1943

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 54 (Actor), 3 (Director), 11 (Writer)

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    Concert for George
    A memorial concert for George Harrison at Albert Hall.
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    Dudley Do-Right
    Follows the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Canadian Mountie (Frasier). (Universal Pictures)
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    Ella Enchanted
    A fairy Godmother granted Ella (Hathaway) the gift -- and curse -- of obedience at her birth. As a result of this unfortunate circumstance, Ella cannot refuse any command, and is often left at the mercy of unscrupulous personalities. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious curse. (Miramax)
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    South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
    South Park is a quiet and peaceful place until the latest Terrance and Philip movie comes out. Once all the kids see it, all hell breaks loose, as the parents try to find a way to stop their kids from saying all the naughty words coming out of their mouths. The parents blame Terrance and Philip, place them under Citizen's Arrest, and declare war on their home country, Canada.
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    102 Dalmatians
    Just when it seemed safe to come out of the kennel, Cruella De Vil is back and this time she's not alone.
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    The Aristocrats
    Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closet friends (who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman) to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque routine, too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats." (ThinkFilm)
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    Life of Brian
    Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah (imdb)
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    The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
    Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time (imdb)
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    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles (imdb)
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    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. (imdb)
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    The Meaning of Life
    The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way. (imdb)
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    European Vacation
    The Griswalds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. (imdb)
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    Casper
    A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk in an abandoned house populated by 3 mischievous ghosts and one friendly one. (imdb)
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    And Now for Something Completely Different
    An anthology of Monty Python's best sketches from their 1st & 2nd seasons of their original TV show. (imdb)
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    Yellowbeard
    Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure... (imdb)
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    Mom and Dad Save the World
    Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth... (imdb)
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    The Transformers: The Movie
    The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who is after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. (imdb)
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    Nuns on the Run
    Brian and Charlie (B & C) work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. (imdb)
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    Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
    A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor. (imdb)
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    Splitting Heirs
    A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts. (imdb)
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    Pirates: 3D Show
    Captain Lucky and his crew of no good pirates venture to an exotic island to find the customary treasure. Unfortunately a young boy with a vengeance has other ideas! (IMDB Comments)
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    Shrek the Third
    When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king.
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    Around the World in 80 Days
    Michael Palin has taken on the task of duplicating Phileas Fogg's feat by attempting to circumnavigate the globe, beginning and ending at the Reform Club in London, in eighty days, using no air travel. He meets Python fans in Greece, eats snake in China, and generally goes from one adventure to another, all the while fighting to make his deadline. (imdb)
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    Around the World in 80 Days
    Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he takes his new butler (a man hoping for a quite life) on a tour of the world. However, just before the time he leaves, the Bank of England is robbed and a Detective believes that Fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him. (imdb)
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    Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie\
    Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being bitten by a lab monkey. When the Tuttle family winds up trapped on a tropical island, however, Eddie manages to provide for everyone and prove himself a real man. (imdb)
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    Quest for Camelot
    An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot. (imdb)
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    Monty Python\
    The two episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" that were made for German TV.
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    Education Tips No. 41: Choosing a Really Expensive School
    We are taken on a Travelogue-style tour of St. Titarse's, eh, St. Titus's Academy by the well known Monty Python team, back for this totally new sketch. (imdb)
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    The Wind in the Willows
    Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr.Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels. (imdb)
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    Delgo
    Delgo, an adventurous but naive teenager, must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.
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    Hercules: Zero to Hero
    Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) - Direct-to-Video
    It consists of three segments that would later serve as episodes from the television series, branched together by additional original animation. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and the beginning of his adventures at the Prometheus Academy, a school for gods and mortals, which Hercules supposedly attended during the time when he was training to be a hero with his mentor, the satyr Philoctetes. (wikipedia)
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    An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
    Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee. Ironic because the actual director of this movie chose the pseudonym as well. (imdb)
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    The Rutles 2: Can\
    After sitting on a shelf at Warner Brothers for over a year, the much anticipated sequel to Eric Idle and Gerard Corvin's 1978 mockumentary, is finally on release, revealing the final exploits of The Rutles as they do a reunion tour of America.
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    The Scream Team
    After the death of their grandfather, young Ian and Claire Carlyle discover that the tiny New England home town is something of a halfway house for restless ghosts, who cannot enter Heaven until they have redeemed themselves on Earth. Among the spectral clients of the "Soul Retrieval Center" are Coffin Ed, a disgraced Revolutionary War soldier, and self-described "beautiful bossy ghost" Maria. Naturally, the Carlyle kids end up as reluctant "case workers" for these and other rueful wraiths. (all movie guide)
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    The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
    Timmy is summoned to Thorn Valley to learn his destiny among the rats of NIMH, as he has an honored place as the son of Jonathan Brisby. Young and impetuous, he has much to learn about thinking things through. When word comes that NIMH still has some of the mice and rats of NIMH who were thought lost, the rats of NIMH opt not to rescue them. When Timmy hears his brother Martin was captured and is being held by NIMH as well, Timmy sets off to rescue him.
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    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
    When Rudolph is born with a red nose he is bullied through out his younger years, but when Stormella closes her bridge of to the public and threaten to put Santa out of business for good this starts a chain of events that brings Rudolph from zero to hero. (rottentomatoes)
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    Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
    Sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) presented by Steve Martin.
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    Missing Pieces
    As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is! (imdb)
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    Too Much Sun
    A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death. (imdb)
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    The Beatles: The Night That Changed America
    A tribute to the Beatles celebrating their appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" 50 years ago.
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    Monty Python Live (Mostly)
    The surviving members of Monty Python reunite for a final performance of their most popular sketches and songs.
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    Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
    As the creative force behind Electric Light Orchestra and a singularly accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Jeff Lynne is one of rock's most iconic--yet mysterious--figures. (imdb)
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    Absolutely Anything
    A group of eccentric aliens confer a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment. (imdb)
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    Monty Python: Almost the Truth - Lawyers Cut
    Documentary that covers the members of the Monty Python comedy troupe from their birth to the present day. It highlights their childhood, schooling and university life, pre-Python work and includes interviews from modern day comedians and performers that cite the troupe as an influence, all five surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and archive footage of the late Graham Chapman. (FilmAffinity)
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    Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
    Follows the stars of Monty Python as they reform and stage ten shows at The O2 in London. This portrait reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing "Monty Python Live (Mostly)" to the stage. (CraveTV)
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    The Seventh Python
    The accidental career of Neil Innes, encompassing the Bonzo Dog Band, Magical Mystery Tour, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Saturday Night Live, The Rutles and beyond. (imdb)
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    Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
    An intimate look into the life and work of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams. (imdb)
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    Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
    Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy examines the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. The film showcases the work of legends such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim. (imdb)
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    Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
    Wayne Szalinski is receiving the Inventor of the Year Award for his shrink ray. When attempting to demonstrate it, it goes haywire and ends up shrinking you, the audience, instead.
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    Not the Messiah: He\
    A comic oratorio inspired by Life of Brian (1979) filmed at its only European performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2009 to celebrate forty years of Monty Python. (imdb)
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    The Daily Show
    The Daily Show (1996) - TV Series
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    Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces
    Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. Dive into his extraordinary story from two distinct points of view—past and present—as Martin reflects on how his beginnings led to his unexpectedly fulfilling life today. (Apple TV)
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    Do Not Adjust Your Set
    Short comedy sketches performed by an ensemble cast accompanied by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, an eccentric English group featuring Neil Innes and fronted by Vivian Stanshall. (imdb)
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