Stan & Ollie
- 2019 film
Biopic film following Laurel & Hardy on their 1953 UK tour. Stars Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Nina Arianda, Shirley Henderson, Rufus Jones and more.
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The real story of the relationship in Stan & Ollie
It's been said that offscreen, Laurel and Hardy were quite the opposite of their movie characters.
i Newspaper, 12th January 2019Stan & Ollie: story of Laurel and Hardy's final tour
The critically acclaimed film Stan & Ollie is released in UK cinemas on Friday. It documents the legendary comedy duo's final tour, which came to an abrupt end in the English city of Plymouth in May 1954.
Hayley Westcott, BBC, 11th January 2019Stan & Ollie review
If you need your heart warmed and to have some laughs along the way, this is will do the trick absorbing, amusing and sentimental, perfect winter viewing.
Julia Chamberlain, Chortle, 11th January 2019Stan & Ollie review
It could be that this heartwarming film is more likely to be cherished by the over-50s, who will consider it a treat to join the trail of the lonesome pine.
Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 11th January 2019Stan & Ollie review
A heartfelt and hilarious tribute to comedy's biggest legends.
Steve Hogarty, City AM, 11th January 2019When Stan and Ollie pulled pints in a village pub
A "shrine" to comedy duo Laurel and Hardy has been drawing tourists to a pub in rural Leicestershire. The tale of their final tour in the UK in 1954 is being told in the critically acclaimed film, Stan & Ollie, released in cinemas on Friday and starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. The comedians stayed at Stan Laurel's sister's pub, the Bull Inn in Bottesford, ahead of performances at the Empire Theatre in nearby Nottingham in 1952 and 1953.
BBC, 11th January 2019Film review: Stan And Ollie
While it's a shame that Reilly has not had a BAFTA nod - the Oscars might balance things of course - maybe this film is more of a landmark for Coogan. It might just be the first time he has played a role onscreen where there is no hint whatsoever of Alan Partridge in the performance.
Beyond The Joke, 11th January 2019Stan & Ollie: Hollywood's greatest comedy double act
Hollywood has a magical roll call of hilarious double acts... Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. But the greatest of all was the inimitable pairing of Laurel and Hardy, who appeared in dozens of films together as the kings of slapstick comedy.
Chris Roycroft-Davis, The Daily Express, 10th January 2019Review: Stan & Ollie
This is an adorable film, sweetly melancholic, bathed in the golden (syrupy) light of a tender friendship. It will surely be a shoo-in for Christmas or Boxing Day TV for years to come.
Julia Chamberlain, Chortle, 10th January 2019Steve Coogan and John C Reilly are perfectly cast as Laurel & Hardy in Jon S Baird's late-years biopic Stan & Ollie, a gentle, melancholic look at the beloved duo long after they've fallen out of favour in Hollywood. Catching up with them as they're reduced to undertaking what seems like a humiliating British tour of regional music halls in 1953, the film explores the complexities of their partnership and the blurring of their on- and off-screen personas as an indifferent-at-first public start turning up in droves to see them. What's good about Baird's film is that it doesn't use their reignited popularity to deliver a bogus triumphalist message; it's more interested in pulling the curtain back on the ephemeral nature of stardom to reveal the fine mess talented performers can get themselves into as they try to negotiate its pitfalls.
Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 10th January 2019