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{{Infobox film
| name = Guest House Paradiso
| image = Guest House Paradiso.jpg
| director = [[Ade Edmondson|Adrian Edmondson]]
| producer = Phil McIntyre
| writer = [[Rik Mayall]] <br />Adrian Edmondson
| based_on = ''[[Bottom (TV series)|Bottom]]'' by Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall
| starring = Rik Mayall<br />Adrian Edmondson
| distributor = [[Universal Pictures]]
| released = 3 December 1999
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| music = [[Colin Towns]]
| cinematography = Alan Almond
| editing = Sean Barton
| budget = £3,000,000
}}
'''''Guest House Paradiso''''' is a 1999 British [[slapstick film|slapstick]] [[black comedy]] film written by and starring comic duo [[Rik Mayall]] and [[Ade Edmondson|Adrian Edmondson]], who also directed in his film directorial debut.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guest House Paradiso|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/184630/Guest-House-Paradiso/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206232620/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/184630/Guest-House-Paradiso/overview|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Jonathan Crow|date=2008|archive-date=2008-02-06}}</ref>

The film is a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] of their [[BBC]] comedy television series ''[[Bottom (TV series)|Bottom]]'' (in some territories, the DVD cover refers to it as ''Richie and Eddie's Bottom Movie''). Mayall and Edmondson reprise their roles from the series respectively as Richie and Eddie, albeit with different surnames. The film was made at [[Ealing Studios]] and on location on the [[Isle of Wight]], off Military Road A3055, between the villages of [[Afton, Isle of Wight|Afton]] and [[Brighstone]].

== Plot ==
Richard "Richie" Twat ([[Rik Mayall]]) and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba ([[Ade Edmondson|Adrian Edmondson]]) run the worst guest house in the [[United Kingdom]]. Their staff include a [[chef]], an idiotic drunkard and an illegal immigrant who is unable to cook, and a waiter, who is implied to have checked into a psychiatric hospital. Both leave because of nonpayment for their employment, with the latter quitting because of the verbal abuse from his boss. The guests, including Mr Johnson ([[Bill Nighy]]), who reside in the pair's hotel are thoroughly dissatisfied by the poor service especially Richie's rudeness, and eventually decide to leave, except for the senile Mrs Foxfur ([[Fenella Fielding]]), who lives there.

Life seems bleak for Richie and Eddie, until it seemingly improves with the arrival of the "Nice family", headed by Mr Nice ([[Simon Pegg]]), and the famous [[Italy|Italian]] actress Gina Carbonara (Hélène Mahieu). The Nice family are staying as it is the cheapest hotel in the country, and Gina's decision to stay in the grotty house is primarily down to her need to seek safety from her ill-tempered fiancé Gino Bolognese ([[Vincent Cassel]]). Without the chef, the duo are forced to cook meals for the guests; luckily, however, Richie comes across some [[fish]] which fell off a military lorry, heading away from the nearby [[nuclear power]] station. Unknown to both him and Eddie, the fish had been contaminated by a radiation leak due to the power station's poor maintenance and equally poor safety regulations.

Thanks to the pair promoting her stay to attract more guests, Gino eventually finds her, and after an [[elopement]] between the two, Gino attempts to [[rape]] Gina. Meanwhile, hours after serving the radioactive fish, everybody becomes violently ill, projectile-[[vomiting]] at high velocity and in huge quantities – all except for Gina Carbonara, the only guest who did not eat the fish due to Gino eating it all for himself. In a [[crime scene getaway|getaway]], Richie and Eddie quickly pack their bags, and are serendipitously reunited with Gina, who they escape with. In an act of spontaneous nausea, every guest projectile-vomits on Gino at once, forcing him backwards out through a window and off a cliff into the ocean, killing him. Government agents arrive to hush up the incident and give Eddie and Richie £10 million, first-class tickets to the [[Caribbean]], and new identities for both them and Gina, in exchange for their silence over the leak. The three accept the offer and head to the Caribbean and start a beach bar called "Beach Bar Paradiso". In the film's final scene, Eddie [[Fourth wall|winks to the camera]] after commenting "How lucky [Gino] was the only fatality. Otherwise there'd be a moral question-mark hanging over our escape."

== Cast ==
* [[Rik Mayall]] as Richard "Richie" Twat
* [[Ade Edmondson|Adrian Edmondson]] as Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba
* [[Vincent Cassel]] as Gino Giuseppe Bolognese
* Hélène Mahieu as Gina Tortellini Carbonara
* [[Bill Nighy]] as Mr. Johnson
* [[Kate Ashfield]] as Ms. Hardy
* [[Simon Pegg]] as Mr. Nice
* [[Fenella Fielding]] as Mrs. Foxfur
* [[Lisa Palfrey]] as Mrs. Nice
* [[Steven O'Donnell (British actor)|Steve O'Donnell]] as Chef Lardy Barsto
* [[James D'Arcy]] as Newly Wedded Husband
* Kate Loustau as Newly Wedded Wife
* Paul Garcia as Screen Lover

== Background ==
Prior to the film's production in 1998, [[Rik Mayall]] was involved in a [[quad bike]] accident, almost killing him and resulting in Mayall being in a coma for some time.<ref>{{cite news|title=Comedian Rik Mayall 'seriously ill'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/77157.stm|publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> During his hospitalisation, Mayall and Edmondson began writing the script for the movie and were inspired to write the hotel backdrop after their stays at some during their tours of the ''[[Bottom Live]]'' shows. The title is taken from the 1988 film [[Cinema Paradiso]].

== Reception ==
''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' gave the film a 2 out of 5 star rating, stating that "The boys toil incredibly hard to make the whole thing work and, while there are some hilarious moments, it is far too patchy for a full feature film."<ref>{{cite web |title=Guest House Paradiso |work=[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]] |url=http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=5291 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111050958/http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=5291 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-11-11 }}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0202381}}
* {{TCMDb title|531442}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|guest_house_paradiso}}

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