A black horror-comic that might have emanated from Ealing Studios had they still been going 30 years on. Obsessed with the pressure of coming up with an advertising campaign for boil cream, ad exec Bagley (Richard E Grant) freaks out. Suffering from a boil himself, he imagines it having life (and voice) of its own, representing the Hyde in him to his own Jekyll. Eventually the boil takes over... or did it all really happen? We'll never know because the film leaves us in no-man's-land. Grant never quite sounds as though he believes in all this, even with such prime lines as 'My grandfather was caught molesting a wallaby in Sydney Zoo in 1919. He put his hand in its pouch... ' Rachel Ward is okay as his long-suffering wife but, despite some good laughs, the film doesn't quite have the consistency, pace or bite to grip our attention (and funny-bone) throughout. Tony Slattery and Sean Bean can be spotted well down the long cast; TV star Richard Wilson has a juicier role as Grant's boss.

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