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DECLINE & FALL

Jack Whitehall (Actor), David Suchet (Actor), Guillem Morales (Director) Rated:
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4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
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Genre Comedy/Television, Television/British Television
Format NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
Contributor David Suchet, Jack Whitehall, Eva Longoria, Evelyn Waugh, Guillem Morales
Language English
Number Of Discs 1
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"Paul Pennyfeather (Jack Whitehall, Fresh Meat) is a quiet and unassuming theology student at Oxford. But his plans for an uneventful life as a priest fall through when he is unceremoniously expelled after a careless prank by one of the university’s infamous social clubs.

Without a private fortune to fall back on, Paul is forced to take a position as a teacher at a third-rate boarding school, run by Dr. Fagan (David Suchet, Agatha Christie’s Poirot). All too quickly, it becomes disastrously apparent that Paul is not fit for the position, but a visit from the beautiful and wealthy American mother of one of his students (Eva Longoria, Desperate Housewives) stirs up hope that his luck may be changing.

Based on the classic satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited), this uproarious series also stars Douglas Hodge (Penny Dreadful) and Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, The Secret Agent). "

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.57 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Guillem Morales
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 2 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2017
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jack Whitehall, David Suchet, Eva Longoria
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Acorn
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0725G7BS2
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 120 ratings

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S. Lachterman
5.0 out of 5 stars Faithful adaptation of Waugh's first novel.
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
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A polished three-part series. Excellent performances, and the production is lovingly lavish including an excellent music score. Certainly, the book is funnier and subtler than this adaptation, but the cast makes the best of the screenplay which is well-synched with the book. Some letdowns, but some hilarity too. Recommended.
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Lambie's MOM
5.0 out of 5 stars David Suchet, is adorable!
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2020
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I bought this after watching another film, where this was advertised. I am not overly impressed with the storyline. There really is no story line. It's a serious of cameo appearances, great costumes, and funny lines, where nothing is inter-connected. I'll bet the book is great. That ther is a whole story behind his film, but I was unable to follow along at times. The film is funny, at times, (Lady Circumference) is fabulous! However, the bits and pieces of characters, storylines are disjointed, and disconnected. Reminds me of the old film,"The Big Lebowski" in parts. All the actors and their performances are great. They just do not have much to work with, in as far as lines and moments. E. Longoria, is cute and beautiful and a bit chubby. However, I cannot find a reason for her appearance at all in this film? (SImilar to Ms. SIgourney Weaver, appearing in "Doc Martin". WHY???????) All the other actors are English, and well placed, even with their odd, short lines. The costumes are lush and pretty. The performances are great and wonderful. The story plays out in (3) episodes, I think? The scenery is also lush and pretty. The story line is quick, fast paced, convoluted and a mish mash of unrelated details, hard to follow at times. But, it is entertaining, funny and fun, at times, too. The idea of submitting an American actress, into some place?? inside a British film, is odd to me. Some submissions work, like Ms. Kim Cattrall - in the film "Witness for the Prosecution. But, we see so little of her great acting. Ms. Catrall's fragile, ultra-lonely character, is In the film desperate, moneyed and empty. Her demise comes too soon in the film. Kim Catrall, is luxurious and beautiful. She is killed far too early in the film, for my taste. Her character's demise is also, far too ugly., "Rise and Fall", and Ms. E. Longoria, is smug, complacent, funny, witty, charming,also moneyed and believable. However, she seems like she was just dumped into the story, so that they could have an American actress in the film. Nothing more. Ms Longoria, does add a brightness to the film and story, but again not enough of her to understand what her deal is? Not a bad film, just disconnected and convoluted. The whole movie industry, these days seems to be ONLY interested in cameo appearances instead of a real story line.
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jdnorthc
4.0 out of 5 stars Waugh
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018
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We enjoyed this adaptation. It could have been faster paced but I love Waugh. I like Jack Whitehall too. Good casting.
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R. Deignan
5.0 out of 5 stars A Pitch-Perfect Adaptation of Waugh's Laugh Riot
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019
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Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall" is one of my favorite books. I bought my copy of it while staying in London and read it later while I was teaching English courses for a university. I sympathized with Paul Pennyfeather's awkward transition into a teaching role he didn't feel quite cut out for, and Waugh's wicked sense of humor was right up my alley. He certainly doesn't spare any rods when lampooning everything from public education to progressive-minded prison reformers. This was the book that got me interested in Waugh as an author, thinker, and satirist. So I was more than a little hesitant to see what a film/TV adaption of the novel would be like.

I was familiar with Jack Whitehall from his role in the TV series "Bad Education," and liked his comedy in that context. Still I was worried that "Decline and Fall" would just be a vehicle for his brand of comedy rather than an attempt to bring the source material to life (think Russell Brand's over-the-top scene-chewing in Taymor's "The Tempest"). Thankfully I was worried over nothing! Whitehall makes a pitch-perfect Paul Pennyfeather. His reactions to the theatre-of-the-absurb antics going on around him are appropriately subtle and capture a genuine wonderment at how ridiculous and thoughtless people (and their institutions) can be.

Supplying the constant stream of comedy are the other perfectly-cast roles, including Dr. Fagan (David Suchet), Grimes (Douglas Hodge), Prendergast (Vincent Franklin), Philbrick (Stephen Graham), and others. Jack Brady as Harold, the prophetic psychopath who flies into a murderous rage from time to time, steals every scene he's in. My favorite being the one in which he's given a tool box, replete with sharp objects--including a handsaw!--by the prison warden. His wide-eyed expression seems to tell the warden, "I'm completely out of my mind, and even I know this is insane!". A perfect example of how this series understands Waugh's sense of humor.

The three-episode format of this series provides plenty of room for the story to unfold, yet the quick pace makes it feel shorter than it really is. The screenwriters and director keep Waugh's wry, caustic wit intact and know when to pivot into serious moments to reveal the deep-feeling humanity beneath the satire. For fans of Waugh's novel, this is as perfect an adaptation as could have been hoped for!
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Marshall Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2023
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A good cast that is wasted with a slow and boring script and story.
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Arneblaze
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly unfunny
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2019
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A rather pale attempt at humor. Despite its stellar cast, it never comes together. Seemed as though it couldn't miss, but miss it did - on all cylinders. Can't recommend this.
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Dean S. Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars Great unlucky-in-love comedy
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020
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Perhaps the wittiest unlucky-in-love comedy put to screen. Starts off somewhat aimlessly, like the hapless protagonist, but takes off with the introduction of Eva Longoria's character toward the end of the first act. Based on Evelyn Waugh's first, largely autobiographical novel.
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Elaine Tanner
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely thrilling towatch a movie inspired by Evelyn Waugh's books
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017
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Absolutely thrilling to watch a movie inspired by Evelyn Waugh's books. If you've never read his work, please take the time - laugh out loud humor for me ( I like it dry!)
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John Firth
5.0 out of 5 stars Great to see this again
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2024
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Greatly enjoyed when we saw it on the telly; delighted to have a copy of our own. It's got the savagery as well as the humour just right.
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David
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2018
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Watching it once is quite enough, thank you!
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M. J. Nelson
4.0 out of 5 stars After Ninety Years, An Acquired Taste ?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 1, 2017
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This BBC TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s first novel, published in 1927, raises several issues concerning the author and his work. How much is Waugh read today ? How well can his very distinctive literary style, or at least its major satirical element, be translated into an essentially visual medium ? And how much of his special qualities resonate in these days, decades after he ceased writing ? If he does, indeed, raise problems they are not ones that trouble me personally because Waugh is my favourite author. But I can imagine many readers and viewers nowadays finding him difficult to take. Decline and Fall, recognised as a classic of 20th century comic literature, charts the career of the endearingly innocent and hapless Paul Pennyfeather from his wholly undeserved expulsion from an Oxford college, his incarceration as a teacher in a truly awful minor Welsh public mostly staffed by misfits, his romance and subsequent adventures with the rich and glamorous but highly disreputable mother of one of the pupils, his second incarceration in a grim country prison next to an impenetrable bog and his return, much chastened, to the not altogether quiet cloisters of his old college. The adaptation, well cast and acted (by, among others, Jack Whitehall as Paul and Eva Longoria as Margot), strikes me as being about as good as can be expected even if it cannot quite catch the brilliance of the original. On the way there are several memorable sequences (one being particularly gruesome) but, as indicated, Waugh is an acquired taste. Perhaps it can be said that he should either be swallowed whole or given a wide birth.
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ChrisPduck
5.0 out of 5 stars True to the book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2020
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If you haven't read Evelyn Waugh's book or seen this film before, give it a go. It's a faithful tongue-in-cheek rendition of the way that the higher echelons of English society treat their inferiors - how they help them if they feel so inclined or it amuses them, use and discard them at will or use their influence to get them out of trouble if they remember or care that is is they who have caused their misfortunes in the first place.

Fortunately for the hapless and innocent Paul, who's university de-bagging at the hands of one of the notorious Bolinger Club comes full-circle in this story of despair and ultimate, though quiet, triumph. The characters he meets along the way are unforgettably eccentric - the mysterious serial-liar Phillbrick, the unfortunate, melancholy Prendy, the wooden legged Grimes, who's always 'in the soup' not least when he promises to marry the dowdy daughter of the eccentrically grandiose Dr. Fagan and ends up faking his own death to avoid his wedding-night duties! Paul himself is played with understated perfection by Jack Whitehall as he's pushed from pillar-to-post by the fragrant Margot Beste-Chetwynd in what appears to be a journey through the whirlpool of life, tossed on a stormy sea in a leaky rowing boat without oars or lifejacket, only to wash up on the shore in a calm to find himself back where he started without stain or blemish on his character.

A study, as most of Evelyn Waugh's books are, of the way in which the English upper classes ultimately rule the roost and exert their powers over the minions, out of boredom, necessity or just because they can.
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Peter
5.0 out of 5 stars what's not to love
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2023
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Silliness of the highest order, wonderfully perfomed by a great cast who obviously know the satire involved. Highly recommended for all fans of great old English comic satire
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