i can say this film have stay power a i have see it about half a dozen time in the 12 year since it come out while the most recent occasion be a week ago and and it still hold up and like a great play . it all in the dialogue and act represent stillman idea of an action scene be someone open a champagne bottle a little over enthusiastically . the character be beautifully draw and none of them perfect and none of them without some redeeming feature . they seem very believable to an outsider from england . the dialogue be a never end delight and full of great one liner and yes and but also some equally cherishable and marvellously pompous sermonising and theorise from these slightly preposterous yet strangely loveable people ( particularly charlie black ) . it not exactly a comedy and but i laugh out loud a lot more than i have in some film that have be try desperately hard to make me titter . for me the great mystery be this represent whatever happen to this fine young cast . edward clements have do virtually nothing since this film and ditto carolyn farina ( apart from a small part in age of innocence ) while likewise eigeman and nichols and although the former seem to have rack up a few more credit and and the latter be in boiler room and although i do not realise it be him until the credit roll . if you need action and plot and this film probably isn not for you . but anyone else can dive in and and enjoy a genuinely independent film that show what can be do on limited resource . this film be worth more in my heart than the combined work of joel schumacher and don simpson and their tiresome and overblown ilk .