The Parole Officer 2001 123movies

Watch: The Parole Officer 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – Failed parole officer Simon Garden (Coogan) is framed for a murder committed by one of Manchester’s leading police officers. The only evidence proving his innocence is a CCTV video tape locked inside a bank vault. With the help of four inept ex-criminals and token love interest Emma (Lena Headey), Garden must break into the bank and steal the CCTV footage in order to clear his name..
Plot: A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 6,913
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Reviews:

a couple of outrageous laughs
Simon Garden (Steve Coogan) is an “annoying” incompetent parole officer. Of his thousand clients, he could only point to three successes; George (Om Puri), Jeff, and Colin. He gets transferred to Manchester. Police Inspector Burton (Stephen Dillane) chases down juvenile car thief Kirsty and recovers drugs. She becomes Simon’s case and claims the drugs were planted. He asks out police constable Emma (Lena Headey). At a strip club, he witnesses Burton selling the drugs and murdering his criminal partner. He escapes but leaves behind his wallet. Burton threatens him with a murder frame-up but later, he decides to take on the corrupt hero cop with the help of his clients, and the mysterious Victor (Omar Sharif).

Coogan is playing a well-meaning buffoon in a light caper police crime drama. He delivers some good comedy and a couple of outlandish gross-out jokes. Vomiting on the roller-coaster is hilarious. The movie could have staked out that area and made this utterly stupid. Instead, it tries to straddle both gross out stupidity and light caper comedy. It needs to pick how serious to treat the material. As it stands, it struggles to satisfy both high-minded and low-brow comedic tastes.

Wonderfully underrated romp
After mediocre initial reviews, this film could become a cult classic.

It’s a ‘perfect crime’ comedy with hints of ‘A Fish called Wanda’, and different people will take different things from it. There’s high-level slapstick, satire/parody and a lot of Steveish in-humour for die-hard Coogan fans.

The entire plot is unbelievable to a farcical extreme, and every character other than Simon Garden suffers from a lack of depth, but then this was always going to be a Coogan vehicle (Rover 75 V6 with Walnut dash, perhaps) and he makes the transition to big screen star successfully, if reluctantly.

I suspect that as Coogan matures as an actor and relaxes into mainstream life, the Parole Officer’s reputation will retroactively improve and in ten years time, this will be seen as a classic British comedy.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Crime
Director John Duigan
Writer Steve Coogan, Henry Normal
Actors Steve Coogan, Lena Headey, Emma Gilmour
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
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Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm