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Article: film: Laughing with the dazzling Devil; Mike Davies takes a look at the week's cinema releases.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2000
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Byline: Mike Davies
BEDAZZLED
Cert 12. 93 mins
As the opening sequence makes abundantly clear, IT support technician Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser) is an oblivious, eager to please doormat. And, as we quickly see, everyone in the office regards him as a total socially inept nerd. Which he is. They go out of their way to avoid his company.
And they get him to embarrass himself with Alison (Frances O'Connor), the colleague on whom he has a mammoth crush but who doesn't even know his name. Elliot would give anything to make her his. Enter ...