The basic premise that 44 Inch Chest is relying on is a risky one. The idea that a bunch of great actors can make something great out of a less than average script. The outcome couldn't be further from that assumption. The reality is most great actors have a hard time translating bad writing into good acting, and the results are no different here. What's surprising though is that the writing comes from a proven scribe of Sexy Beast acclaim. Even still with the likes of Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, and Ian McShane leading the cast this story never really gets off the ground, probably because their isn't much of a story here to tell. A man's wife wants to leave him for another man. He responds accordingly by putting this other man in a, you guessed it, 44 Inch Chest until he can figure out just what exactly to do with him. An hour and a half later the end.
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2010
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