Eat the Rich (film)

Eat the Rich is a 1987 British black comedy film, directed by Peter Richardson. It was a coproduction between Channel Four Films, Iron Fist Motion Pictures and Michael White Productions. It features cast members from the popular television series The Comic Strip Presents....

The film begins in a highclass London restaurant named Bastards, staffed by the protagonist, waiter Alex Alan Pellay. Alex is subject to the daily contempt and disgust of the upperclass customers, and is eventually fired for being obnoxious and rude to the clientele. After witnessing an act of terrorism on an embassy, he robs a benefits office and goes on the run with his new friend. Meanwhile, Nosher Powell plays the Home Secretary, a menacing, beerswilling, fornicating, lovable lout who has his own nononsense way of dealing with trouble, usually with his fists. Hes the darling of the voters, the press and the gorgeous Fiona Fiona Richmond, a glamorous KGB agent. He was also the one who ended the terrorist situation that Alex witnessed earlier in the movie. However, Nosher has enemies, including the sinister Commander Fortune Ronald Allen, who plots a peoples revolution with a difference, and General Karprov Dave Beard and Spider Ian Kilmister, who plot to derail the Home Secretarys campaign of becoming Prime Minister.After assembling a fourperson team of wouldbe anarchists, Alex returns to Bastards and lays waste to the clientele and staff. He begins serving them up to other rich people in their new restaurant, Eat the Rich. When Commander Fortune and Spider find out about these changes to the menu, they formulate a plot to get rid of the conservative Home Secretary for good. ........

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