High Heels And Low Lifes

Starring: Mary McCormack, Minnie Driver Director: Mel Smith Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 13th May, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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DVD Extras: High Heels & Low Lifes the DVD, like the film itself, is fairly average. The soundtrack certainly sounds good & Smith's snappy visual style is well represented. The special features, however, fail to offer us anything particularly new or exciting, featuring the now standard featurette, audio commentary from Smith & writer Kim Fuller, & a peculiar thing called an action overload--essentially the trailer without the voiceover.

With its limp efforts to mix comedy & drama, High Heels & Low Lifes is in many ways a faltering attempt to combine the most successful aspects of recent British cinema. Directed by Mel Smith , the movie tries to work the modern gangster genre into a more farcical setting. By basing his film on the story of two friends Frances & Shannon , Smith is aiming for a Thelma & Louise feel, but falls some way short of the mark.

Having literally stumbled into a local bank robbery, the pair devise a plan to blackmail the gang behind the heist, a plan that descends into a rather predictable farce. McCormack certainly makes energetic use of the limited material she has to work with, & while kudos must go to Driver for picking a low-budget British film, she simply has been much better in her Hollywood work . Indeed, its female leads aside, the cast is almost predominantly assembled from British television comedy shows, with Mark Williams from The Fast Show & Big Trains Danny Dyer acquitting themselves particularly well. Overall, though, its not an awful lot to write home about.

Minnie Driver is a British actress, born in London. She first came to broad public attention when she played the lead role in Circle of Friends. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. Prior to her success as an actress, Driver was a member of a band called Puff, Rocks & Brown; the band was signed to a development deal with Island Records, which ended without a release. She began a low-profile return to music in 2000 ; in 2004 she signed recording contracts with EMI & Rounder Records & performed at SXSW. The contract led to the release of Everything Ive Got in My Pocket, an album backed by a group that includes members of the Wallflowers & Pete Yorn ’s band. Driver wrote ten of the eleven songs on the album & also covered Hungry Heart from Bruce Springsteen s The River. She has been linked romantically with several of her films costars, including Matt Damon, John Cusack & Josh Brolin.   on W*USA 9 - Washington, DC website.   on Internet Movie Database website. Posters Of Minnie Driver

Editors Choice: Ella Enchanted, Owning Mahowny, High Heels And Low Lifes, Circle Of Friends, An Ideal Husband, Higher Love, The Governess, Grosse Pointe Blank, View DVDology

Mel Smith British actor, film director, writer, producer born in London, England. Made his breakthrough in the topically satirical BBC television series Not the Nine Oclock News. This was followed breifly by Smith & Goody & then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith & Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith & Jones. In 1981, Smith & Griff Rhys-Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company which has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I’m Alan Partridge & Big Train. Morons from Outer Space - Bernard; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Mr. Grimshaw. Posters Of Blackball

Editors Choice: Blackball, High Heels And Low Lifes, Bean, Wilt, Morons From Outer Space, The Tall Guy, Slayground, Alas Smith And Jones, View DVDology

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