Honest

About Honest

Overview

Honest is a drama crime film released in 2000. The film was the directorial debut of ex-Eurythmics member Dave Stewart and starred Peter Facinelli and three members of the British/Canadian girl group All Saints: Melanie Blatt and sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton. Plot The plot follows the antics of three gun-toting, streetwise, saucy sisters in Swinging London in the late 1960s. Reception Honest received unfavourable reviews with one critic remarking, "It is the worst kind of rubbish, the kind that makes you angry you have wasted 105 minutes of your life." Peter Bradshaw noted Honest "subscribes to the usual credulous fictions about the charm, glamour and wit of violent criminals, and leaves out these qualities in spades" and added "However silly and implausible, it would be all right if there was the slightest hint of brio or fun in the script, written by comedy giants Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. But there isn't". The Scottish Daily Record went so far as to state that "This turgid tale of Sixties London isn't just bad - it's quite probably the worst film ever" and added "And Honest is being tipped for a slot in Hollywood's hall of shame, ranked alongside duffs like Waterworld and The Avengers". However, the Sunday Times gave it 4 stars and called it a "cult classic" à la Amazon Women on the Moon. The film was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. The low budget (£3 million) film flopped in its opening week in the UK, earning only £111,309 on 220 screens.

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Notable quotes

“He who says that there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knave.”
— George Berkeley, as quoted in Ladies Home Journal Vol. 97, No. 8 (August 1960).
“The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.”
— Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290.
“Keep your eyes open if you deal with him. — Why, isn't he honest? — Thomasus? Sure he's honest. You just have to watch him, that's all.”
— L Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall.
“A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.”
— Otto Weininger, Sex and Character (1906), p. 150.
“Omnia quæ vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.”
— Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
— George Washington, speech to the Constitutional Convention (1787).

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