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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado(1981)
Status: Released
Date: 1981-01-20
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Time: 1h 10m
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A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.
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Movie: A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
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Christopher Benjamin
Mr Porter
Paul Copley
Tom
Natasha Pyne
Gwen
Mark Penfold
Harry
Nigel Hawthorne
Fulton
Kevin Lloyd
Des McNeil
Harold Goodwin
Sales representative
Leonard Fenton
Mr Smith
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A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.
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1981-01-20
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