He may not be a mega filmstar but he's an iconic comedian from the legendary Monty Python Team, John Cleese is now starring in a South African Family movie SPUD.
The movie is based on a popular schoolboy comedy based on books of the same name and the amazing thing about the cinemas in south africa there not dominated by Hollywood blockbusters, its this movie! I think we can say South Afriacan cinema is on the ascendacy after 2009's sucess of District9 which put the nation of the cinematic map which lets them now hire international stars, you could say this is a little bit like Burt Lancaster and his bit for Scottish film in Local Hero?
South Africa, the early 1990s. John "Spud" Milton has embarked on his first year at an elite, boys-only private school. Cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe, a senile granny, and a dormitory full of strange characters, Spud has to forge a new life for himself in this foreign and sometimes hostile environment. Surrounded by names such as Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path toward manhood. Armed with only his wits and his diary, Spud takes us from illegal night swimming to the cricket field, from ghost busting to teacher baiting. He also invites us into the mind of a boy struggling to come to terms with a strange new world; a boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity.
trailer after the break...
