Eskimo Nell

Eskimo Nell

Directed by Martin Campbell

Produced by Salon Productions

197585 min4.0 / 10

A farcical sex comedy about three hapless filmmakers juggling impossible demands and deception while trying to make three different movies simultaneously.

Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....

Questions people ask

  • Is Eskimo Nell sad? No. Less sad than 97% of films.

  • Is Eskimo Nell violent? Not especially. Less violent than 73% of films.

  • Is Eskimo Nell easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Is Eskimo Nell scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.

  • Does Eskimo Nell end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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15/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity62

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love3

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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