Wilt (1989)
1h 32m | PG-13
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.
Director: Michael Tuchner
Studio: Talkback
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Video: 720p
Cast
Mel Smith
as Inspector Flint
Griff Rhys Jones
as Henry Wilt
Alison Steadman
as Eva
Roger Lloyd Pack
as Dr Pittman
Diana Quick
as Sally
Jeremy Clyde
as Hugh
Reviews
"Wilt" is a consistently amusing film throughout which perfectly uses the comedy of extreme embarrassment to good effect as Henry Wilt bungles his way from one improbable - yet never entirely implausible - catastrophe to the next. The many twists and turns it takes are completely unanticipated until the very end when it becomes perfectly clear Wilt's wife Eva is very much alive and she has inadvertently stumbled into the clutches of the strangler and, even though this character has been referenced elsewhere earlier on in the film, this doesn't spoil the fun in any way. The finale has lots of comedic energy running through it to sustain it until the very end and the film as a whole is satisfactorily concluded on every level.