

71 minutes
12/19/1994
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.

Mel Smith
as Stephen Milner

Deborah Findlay
as Sylvia Milner

Ronald Pickup
as Jocelyn Fry

Ken Hutchison
as Ronald Jesson

James Fleet
as Hugh Bonning

David Ryall
as Dave Stiles
Eve Pearce
as Mrs Milner

Tom Hollander
as Ben Milner
Louise Beattie
as Elaine Nicholson

Simon Godley
as Toby Judd
Sarah Carpenter
as Felicity Drewett

Badi Uzzaman
as Ajit Rao
Jane Marlow
as Christine Brown
Anny Tobin
as Lizzie Cook

John Hannah
as Windscreen Washer
Bill Moody
as Fred Peart

Tanveer Ghani
as Hamid Khan

John Richardson
as Edward

Terence Harvey
as Charles Snaith
Akim Mogaji
as Caspar Morgab

Nicola Walker
as Colette Brustein

Roger Frost
as Mr Hipps
Malcolm Raeburn
as CI Strachan
John Harding
as Julian Hargreaves

Catherine Tate
as Jesson's P.A.