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High Heels And Low Lifes
Best friends, Frances, an aspiring actress waiting for her big break, and Shannon, a nurse struggling to do good with limited resources, accidentally overhear about a heist taking place in their neighbourhood. The pair devise a seemingly simple plan to blackmail the gang. But their first phone call pitches them deep into the criminal world and the pair suddenly realise that they have taken on more than they can handle...
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Touchstone Home Video High Heels And Low Lifes [2001]
With its limp efforts to mix comedy and drama, <I>High Heels and Low Lifes</I> is in many ways a faltering attempt to combine the most successful aspects of recent British cinema. Directed by Mel Smith (whose <I>The Tall Guy</I> was unarguably a fine film), the movie tries to work the modern gangster genre into a more farcical setting. By basing his film on the story of two friends Frances (Mary McCormack) and Shannon (Minnie Driver), Smith is aiming for a <I>Thelma & Louise</I> feel, but falls some way short of the mark. <p> Having literally stumbled into a local bank robbery, the pair devise a plan to blackmail the gang behind the heist--a plan that descends into a rather predictable farce. McCormack certainly makes energetic use of the limited material she has to work with, and while kudos must go to Driver for picking a low-budget British film, she simply has been much better in her Hollywood work (notably the more understated humour of <I>Grosse Pointe Blank</I>). Indeed, its female leads aside, the cast is almost predominantly assembled from British television comedy shows, with Mark Williams from <I>The Fast Show</I> and <I>Big Train</I>'s Danny Dyer acquitting themselves particularly well. Overall, though, it's not an awful lot to write home about. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>High Heels and Low Lifes</I> the DVD, like the film itself, is fairly average. The soundtrack (a vibrant mix of old and new) certainly sounds good and Smith's snappy visual style is well represented. The special features, however, fail to offer us anything particularly new or exciting, featuring the now standard featurette, audio commentary from Smith and writer Kim Fuller, and a peculiar thing called an action overload--essentially the trailer without the voiceover. --<I>Phil Udell</I>
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Classic Entertainment The Lone Ranger - 4 Classic Episodes - Vol. 2 - Pete And Pedro The Renegades High Heels Six Guns Legacy
Release Date: 2005-06-06, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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HIGH HEELS AND LOW LIFES
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd How to Walk in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything
Pages: 400, Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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Odeon Entertainment Satan In High Heels
Release Date: 2006-02-20, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Booklocker.com High Heels and 18 Wheels: Confessions of a Lady Trucker
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Kensington Publishing High Heels and Homicide
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd How to Walk in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything
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Red Dress Ink Do They Wear High Heels in Heaven?
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Signet Book Trouble in High Heels
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Showbox Media Group Ltd Biker Babes - Hot Wheels High Heels
Release Date: 2003-08-01, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Xlibris Corporation All About Wearing High Heels: For Girlswomen
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Downtown Press Balancing in High Heels
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Warner Forever Trouble in High Heels
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Chronicle Books High Balls and High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
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Duke University Press High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
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World Leisure Marketing Ltd Miss High Heels
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