Stanley: Every Home Should Have One (1984) User Reviews

One of the best films I have seen. Slow to start,...

[ernst-3 · 10 May 1999]

One of the best films I have seen. Slow to start, but great for anyone who is waiting for their knight in shining armour

no laurel for Stanley

[ptb-8 · 2/10 · 27 December 2005]

This infantile Austalian film centers on the Richie Rich existence of the main character and his 'life' in Sydney being fussed over by Mother and trilling about in a Rolls Royce. Made during the dishonest film maker years of the 80s when this country had a tax break known infamously as "the 10BA clause" it attracted shyster producers to the biz and junk like this was churned out. The final nail in this coffin of film titles was the insulting and puerile Barry Humphries/Edna Everage farce LES PATTERSON SAVES THE WORLD where the Prime Minister of Australia walked out of the premiere and was ambushed by the media asking what he thought of the film "Well, that's the end of the 10ba clause" he said. And then it was all over. Professionals only please. And no more celluloid crap like STANLEY. In the last reel of STANLEY an extended 'comedy' sequence details the systematic destruction of a vintage style Rolls Royce, supposedly to make us commoners scream with laughter at the sight of wealth being crumpled...sort of like the wealthy matron in a 3 stooges short copping a pie in the face. That is the woeful level of this embarrassment.

slow to start but very funny

[rendrag-1 · 10/10 · 26 December 2003]

A must watch movie for anyone who doubt's that they are normal.

Stanley is the eccentric young son of a rich tycoon, and fearing yet another visit to the looney bin does a runner and decides to learn what being normal is.

After a computer search of the families sales records he locates a "normal" family with a room to rent, gets a normal job etc.

You'll have to see the movie to find out how normal everyone Stanley meets will be.