Sweet Revenge

Director: Malcom Mowbray
Cast: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Martin Clunes, Steve Coogan, and John Wood
Genre: Comedy 1998
Running time: 90 mins.
Rating:★★★★

Quite by chance, downcast businessman Henry Bell (Sam Neill) and quirky aristocrat Karen Knightly (Helena Bonham Carter) save each other's life just as they were both attempting to leap from London's Tower Bridge! Then, Karen quickly invents a plot of devilish retaliation against those who drove them to the edge! She will punish the man who stole Henry's job and he will destroy the life of the woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) who broke up Karen's love affair!

A wonderful throwback to Romantic-Comedies of the 1940's and '50's, especially with the confession in a church by a guy to introduce what really happened to Henry Bell, which therefore transition into the plot of the film. Its also stylistically references those cinematic eras with the way Bonham Carter's and Neill's characters first meet. The two characters, who seem totally different from one another and probably under different circumstances would never travel in the same circles of people, are thrown together in a slightly morbid, quirky, and delightfully witty situation.

A perfectly casted group of actors. A film where the unexpected is expected!