What About Dick?

“Oscar Wilde on acid,” “like Downton Abbey and almost as funny,” “like E.M Forster on steroids” and “a cross between a budgerigar and an accountant.”

What About Dick? — Plot

The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano. The Piano narrates the tale of Dick; his two cousins: Emma, an emotionally stunted English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel. When the Reverend Whoopsie discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin, who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.

• Release date
• November 13, 2012
• Runtime
• 80 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Eric Idle

What About Dick? — Cast

Suzy Eddie Izzard Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley Eric Idle The Piano Russell Brand Dick Jane Leeves Emma Sophie Winkleman Helena Tracey Ullman Aunt Maggie Tim Curry Reverend Whoopsie Billy Connolly Inspector McGuffin