Guest House Paradiso (1999) on Netflix
Richie and Eddie run the Guest House Paradiso, a hotel beside a nuclear power station. With the staff gone and no guests left, film star Gina Carbonara arrives, hiding from her fiancé.
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Plot summary
On the Isle of Wight, Richie and Eddie are the proprietors of the Guest House Paradiso. Their staff walk out, the guests depart, and the chef leaves with the food. Mr. Nice arrives with his wife and their children, Damien and Charlene, taking rooms because the guest house is the only place the family can afford. Mrs. Foxfur, an elderly patron, checks in, and so do Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Hardy, who are staying briefly. Then the famous Italian film star Gina Carbonara arrives, in hiding from Gino Bolognese, the ill-tempered and criminal fiancé she has no wish to marry.
Cast
- Joe Hughesas Damien Nice
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Guest House Paradiso (1999)
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- The film was inspired by the hotel stays Mayall and Edmondson had during their Bottom Live shows, and while they were writing the script Mayall suffered a near-fatal quad bike accident in 1998 that fractured his skull and left him unresponsive for some time.
- Edmondson was assured by Mayall's consultant that it was safe to physically hit him during filming, and that only a traumatic blow would cause damage, but he still cut a scene in which Mayall falls down a staircase, saying it was stupid to risk it.
- To film Eddie being dragged back into the kitchen with meat hooks jammed in his nostrils, Mayall and Edmondson acted the scene out backward, with Edmondson reading his line “Excuse me one moment” in reverse so that it played normally when rewound.
- Edmondson sought advice from Terry Jones because of Jones's performance as Mr Creosote in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and created the role of “Vomit Technician” to collect videotapes of different kinds of vomit for the special effects department to study.
- Simon Pegg was cast as Mr. Nice shortly after he finished filming the first series of Spaced; a fan of Mayall and Edmondson's work since he was a child, he would talk with Mayall about The Young Ones during filming.
- During Mayall's recovery he and Edmondson finished the script, reworking it to reduce a length that Mayall estimated had run to nearly four hours in its original conception.
