Honest is a black comedy

Black comedy

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 crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 released in 2000

2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

. The film was the directorial debut of ex-Eurythmics

Eurythmics

Eurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...

 member Dave Stewart

David A. Stewart

David Allan Stewart , often known as Dave Stewart, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".-Early life:Stewart was born in Sunderland,...

 and starred Peter Facinelli

Peter Facinelli

Peter Facinelli is an American actor. He became known as the star of Fox's 2002 television series Fastlane. He plays Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight series. He is also well known for his role as Mike Dexter in the film Can't Hardly Wait...

 and three members of the British/Canadian girl group

Girl group

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 All Saints

All Saints (group)

All Saints were a British/Canadian girl group. Founded in 1993 as All Saints 1.9.7.5, the group consisted of founding members Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis, and sisters Nicole Appleton and Natalie Appleton...

: sisters Nicole

Nicole Appleton

Nicole Marie Appleton-Gallagher is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of All Saints. She was formerly a member of Appleton along with her older sister Natalie.-Early life:...

 and Natalie Appleton

Natalie Appleton

Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the band All Saints. During All Saints' five years of inactivity, she was a member of Appleton with her younger sister Nicole.-Biography:...

 and Melanie Blatt

Melanie Blatt

Melanie Ruth Blatt is a singer, actress, television personality and was a member of the multi-million selling girl group All Saints. Following their split she launched a solo career.-Early life:...

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The plot follows the antics of three gun-toting, streetwise, saucy sisters in Swinging London

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 in the late 1960s. The film is most notable for the topless scenes by the Appleton sisters

Appleton (music duo)

Appleton were a Canadian musical duo comprising Natalie Appleton and her sister Nicole. The sisters were perhaps best known as members of the girl group All Saints.-Biography:...

. Blatt and the Appletons also contributed to three songs on the film's soundtrack

Honest (soundtrack)

Honest is the soundtrack of the feature film Honest, directed by ex-Eurythmics member David A. Stewart.-Track listing:...

.

Honest received blistering reviews with one critic remarking, "It is the worst kind of rubbish, the kind that makes you angry you have wasted 105 minutes of your life." However, the Sunday Times

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 gave it 4 stars and called it a "cult classic

Cult Classic

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" à la Amazon Women on the Moon

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. The film was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival

2000 Cannes Film Festival

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The low budget (£3 million) film flopped in its opening week in the UK, earning only £111,309 on 220 screens.

Cast

• Nicole Appleton
  Nicole Appleton
  Nicole Marie Appleton-Gallagher is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of All Saints. She was formerly a member of Appleton along with her older sister Natalie.-Early life:...
  
   - Gerry Chase
• Natalie Appleton
  Natalie Appleton
  Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett is a Canadian pop singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the band All Saints. During All Saints' five years of inactivity, she was a member of Appleton with her younger sister Nicole.-Biography:...
  
   - Mandy Chase
• Melanie Blatt
  Melanie Blatt
  Melanie Ruth Blatt is a singer, actress, television personality and was a member of the multi-million selling girl group All Saints. Following their split she launched a solo career.-Early life:...
  
   - Jo Chase
• Derek Deadman
  Derek Deadman
  Derek Deadman is a British actor. He appeared as Rankin in two episodes of the RAF sitcom Get Some In! in 1975 and 1978. He played Ringo in 39 of the 66 episodes of the TV series Never the Twain between 1981 and 1991, and appeared as the barman of The Leaky Cauldron, Tom, in Harry Potter and the...
  
   - Night Watchman
• Graham Fletcher-Cook - Market Trader
• Vinny Reed - Stills Photographer
• Karina Iszatt - Body Painted Girl
• Peter Facinelli
  Peter Facinelli
  Peter Facinelli is an American actor. He became known as the star of Fox's 2002 television series Fastlane. He plays Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight series. He is also well known for his role as Mike Dexter in the film Can't Hardly Wait...
  
   - Daniel Wheaton
• Rick Warden
  Rick Warden
  Richard George Warden is an English television and movie actor.Warden studied at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and received a B.A. Honours in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, 1994. He married actress Lucy Barker on 1 May 2004.He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO...
  
   - Baz
• Jonathan Cake - Andrew Pryce-Stevens
• Willie Ross - Woodbine
• Annette Badland
  Annette Badland
  Annette Badland is an English actress best known for her work in children's television.-Biography:Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London...
  
   - Rose
• Corin Redgrave
  Corin Redgrave
  Corin William Redgrave was an English actor and political activist.-Early life:Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...
  
   - Duggie Ord
• Matt Bardock
  Matt Bardock
  Matthew Arthur "Matt" Bardock in Coulsdon, Surrey is an English actor.-Early life:Bardock attended Woodcote High School in Coulsdon, Surrey, where he was a keen drummer, and was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain before training at the Guildhall School of drama-Career:Bardock...
  
  - Cedric