Henry Brilliant
Created by James
Kenelm Clarke
Private eye HENRY BRILLIANT is anything but. He's hired
by a wealthy woman (Jean Simmons) to protect her spoiled, bratty
daughter (Lea Thompson) during a trip to Eurpope.
But wouldn't you know it? The daughter soon becomes the target
of an international gang of kidnappers, and it's up to fumbling,
bumbling Brilliant (played by Jack Lemmon's son) to save the girl
(and possibly win her heart), in this frothy screwball comedy.
The word cute comes to mind.
The film seems to have a minor cult following, but Leonard
Maltin describes it as an "obnoxious comedy" that was
"made in 1984, and (understandably) shelved (for four years)."
FILM
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this video
(AKA "GOING UNDER COVER")
(1988, Miramax)
89 minutes
Screenplay by James Kenelm
Clarke
Directed by James Kenelm
Clarke
Produced by Jefferson Colegate-Stone
and John D. Schofield
Associate producers Paul
Jordan
Executive producerS: Barry
Plumley, Sean Redmayne
Original music by Alan Hawkshaw
Cinematography by John Coquillon
Starring Chris Lemmon as
HENRY BRILLIANT
Also starring Jean Simmons,
Lea Thompson, Viveca Lindfors, Mills Watson, Jewel Shepard, Nancy
Cartwright, Joe Michael Terry, Elizabeth Spriggs and Adam West
as Henry's Father (uncredited)
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