"Director: Ate de Jong"

• Drop Dead Fred | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This not-quite-black comedy was probably a laugh riot on paper. The translation almost works, but the execution is flawed. Phoebe Cates is a recently separated young woman who suddenly begins to see her supposedly imagined childhood friend (the titular Drop Dead Fred) after moving back into her mother's home. Is he a manifestation of her secret desires to ditch the boorish spouse? Or was he real all along? Rik Mayall is a limber, carrot-topped comic with the lamentable assignment of trying to make us laugh with vulgar, sophomoric trickery. He is supposedly the repository of Cates's fastidious repression but is more annoying than cathartic. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Drop Dead Fred (DVD) | DVD | (29/08/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Her marriage on the rocks, Lizzie Cronin (Phoebe Cates) is forced to return to her domineering mother. In desperation, Lizzie calls upon Fred (Rik Mayall), the imaginary friend of her childhood, to help her through this difficult period. But Fred proves to be more hindrance than help - the effects of his actions are far from imaginary and Lizzie must take the blame.

• Deadly Virtues | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £6.65   |  Saving you £9.34 (140.45%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Over the course of a weekend a hypnotic home invader explores and exploits the relationship of a suburban middle class couple. His brutal torture of the husband and seduction of the wife uncovers an uncomfortable truth about their marriage and ultimately acts as a catalyst for extreme liberation.

• Drop Dead Fred/The Parole Officer/Guest House Paradiso | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Drop Dead Fred (Dir. Ate De Jong 1991): When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home when her marriage breaks up she recreates her imaginary childhood friend Fred to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates Elizabeth desperately attempts to win back her husband and return to normality with comical results! Parole Officer (Dir. John Duigan 2001): Simon Garden (Steve Coogan) a useless parole officer