Soapdish

When Soapdish was released in cinemas, I actually wanted to see it but never got round to it. TV Danmark, whose existence I am otherwise against, gave me the opportunity. The film is a raving mad farce about the soap star Celeste Talbert, who has a fight on her hands when a younger and ambitious actress in the same series, Montana Moorehead, tries to oust Celeste in favour of herself. Montana promises sex and more sex to the lecherous producer David Barnes if he brings her success. David lures back Celeste's ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Anderson. His career has been going steadily downhill since Celeste got him fired twenty years ago. The hour of revenge has come. At the same time, the young actress Lori Craven gets a part in the series, partly because she is Celeste's niece - or is she?

Soapdish does not appeal to everyone's sense of humour, but its overwrought comedy and wild plot, which tells the story of how reality often outdoes fiction, were just my cup of tea.