Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4011 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-08-21
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Synopsis
John Cleese stars in this delightful comedy as Brian Stimpson, the headmaster of a British high school whose obsession with punctuality is a source of humour for his students and joy for himself. The timely Stimpson has been elected the chairman of a conference of headmasters from posh schools--a high honor. To give his keynote address, Stimpson must travel all the way to Norwich. However, when a semantic misunderstanding sends Stimpson in the wrong direction, he begins a journey that not only finds him racing against time, but also avoiding the police, losing his speech and clothes, destroying a pay phone, and generally railing against a society that seems intent on forcing him to be late for the most important day of his life. Written to perfection by Michael Frayn (NOISES OFF), CLOCKWISE features a pitch-perfect performance by Cleese that makes this one of his funniest non-MONTY PYTHON outings.

Customer Reviews

Classic 80's Comedy
Pitch perfect mid 1980's comedy, with Cleese keeping his manic side in check - just - as he tries to get to a conference.

One of the oddest things about watching the films now is how old it seems. We still tend to think of the 1980s as recent history, but when you watch this you realise how much has changed. The cars, the trains, the lack of traffic, no mobile phones. Who would have thought it - 1986 is suddenly starting to look like the good old days.

Inspired Cleese
Top movie from the 80s. John Cleese is off to give an important speech at the Headmasters conference. He is normally very, very punctual but things go wrong when he misses his train. He then proceeds to get lost in the middle of the English countryside, loses his clothes and almost his mind. But he keeps it going to the end and makes his speech.