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Originally posted by spookyfish
If he's cast as Dr. Bombay, that's not a bad call at all.
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As it turns out (after a bit of IMDB and Googling work) he is not. He plays Samantha's father, Nigel Bigelow. If you find this as confusing as I did, you should know it's not a straight-ahead remake of the sitcom, as I learned from
this review of the screenplay (some spoilers, though not the resolution of the entire film). The import of this is that (a.) the casting of Farrell makes
slightly more sense, so I'll give up on the Carrey thing now; and (b.) the casting of Nicole "Oh my God she's a dead ringer for Elizabeth Montgomery" Kidman is actually part of the plot, in a strange sort of way.
The reviewer likens the TV-show-within-a-movie device to
Adaptation., which might be dignifying it a bit much, but needless to say it's a pretty innovative way of doing a '60s sitcom as a movie --- certainly more so than Brady Bunch or Starsky & Hutch.
As long as they bring "Are You Being Served?" to neither the big nor the small screen, I'm happy.
