Sunday, September 30, 2012

100 Ways to Murder Your Wife (1993)

Kenny and Football Fa, two star soccer players, meet in bar. While drinking they commiserate about the problems with their wives.  Kenny's wife is a nag and never has anything nice to say about him, while Football Fa's wife is popular with his teammates and he thinks she's having an affair.

As the night wears on and the drinks flow, they come up with a plan to kill each others wives.  Kenny heads to Football Fa's home,  finds himself in the middle of a huge party and backs out.  Football Fa finds Kenny's wife alone, but she fights him off and he passes out on the living room floor.

When both men wake up in Kenny's living room the next day, Football Fa tells Kenny his wife is dead.  Now the pressure is on Kenny to complete his part of the bargain.  Comedy ensues as Kenny's wife pretends to be a ghost and Football Fa starts to believe Kenny is interested in Fa's wife since he cant seem to kill her .

The plot is similar to a farcical version of Hitchcock's Strangers on Train.  But something was lost in the translation as it wasn't all that funny.  The problem may have been the subtitles as they weren't always complete sentences or didn't always make sense.








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