Guest House Paradiso

Story

Richie (Mayall) and Eddie (Edmondson) run the worst guest house in the UK, neighbouring a nuclear power station. The chef is a smelling drunk who can't cook and eventually leaves due to his lack of payment, the guest are totally unsatified (one of them played by Bill Nighy) due to the lack of service such as waiters etc, and so they all decide to leave without paying, except for "Mrs Foxfur" (Fenella Fielding) who lives there.

The most famous scene in the film, and the most violent, is Richie and Eddie's fight in the kitchen, from smacking each other's heads in the fridge door, Richie putting meat hooks up Eddie's nose and crashing him about the place, to Eddie crushing Richie's testicles with (appropriately) a nutcracker.

Life seems bleak for Eddie and Ritchie, but things seemingly improve with the arrival of the "Nice family", with Simon Pegg playing the father. Furthermore, the famous Italian actress "Gina Carbonara" (Helene Mahieu) comes to stay in the grotty house seeking safety from her ill-tempered boyfriend, but her boyfriend does eventually find her and comes to the guest house near the end of the movie.

Further on in the movie Richie finds some fish, which fell off a loading truck coming from the nuclear power station, whilst running over Eddie's head. Richie and Eddie don't realise that the fish are contaminated until they feed them to the guests. Hours later the guests are expelling huge quantities of vomit at high velocity - all except for Gina Carbonara who is apparently the only guest who did not eat the fish. In the resulting chaos, Gina's violent boyfriend is propelled out of a window into the sea and presumably drowned.

Agents from the secret service arrive to hush up the incident and give Eddie and Richie a suitcase full of money. They pack their belongings and head off to the Caribbean, taking Gina Carbonara with them.

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