Carrie and Barry

2004
6| 0h30m| en
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Carrie and Barry is a sitcom, shown 2004 - 2005 on BBC One, starring Neil Morrissey, Claire Rushbrook, Mark Williams and Michelle Gomez. Produced by Hartswood Films, it reunited Morrissey with personnel from Men Behaving Badly: specifically writer Simon Nye, executive producer Beryl Vertue and director Martin Dennis. It was produced by Sue Vertue. Neil Morrissey plays part-time taxi driver Barry and Claire Rushbrook is his beautician wife Carrie. The couple find themselves with the daily challenges of keeping the spice in their marriage and the fun in their day jobs — as well as having to deal with Barry's teenage daughter Sinéad from his disastrous first marriage. Mark Williams plays Barry's mate Kirk, who co-owns his black cab whilst Michelle Gomez is Carrie's acid-tongued best friend and fellow beautician Michelle.

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NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
RaspberryLucozade Neil Morrissey has never been able to shake of his role as boozy Tony in 'Men Behaving Badly'. Even the adverts he appeared in for Homebase with Leslie Ash still had a feel of Simon Nye's earlier creation to them. In 2004, Nye tried to creating a vehicle for Neil which cast him as London cabbie Barry who lives in bliss with his timid yet fiery wife Carrie. It came about at the same time as the second series of 'Eyes Down'. Seeing the trailers for the show, I eagerly tuned in to the first episode with high hopes. However, all hopes were sadly dashed, and dashed good and proper at that! I have never watched the show since its first broadcast so I have no real recollection of the plots as such but one thing I do remember was that the show was a stinker. It was like watching 'Men Behaving Badly' without Gary. Neil looks lost without Martin Clunes to bounce off and Claire Rushbrook is no Leslie Ash. Even Michelle Gomez comes across as a cardboard cut-out of Dorothy. Mark Williams, who played Barry's friend Kirk, has been in better shows than this such as 'Red Dwarf' and 'Alexei Sayle's Stuff'.Only two series got made, the first of which somehow managed to appear on DVD. It seems highly unlikely that the show will ever be recognised as a forgotten comedy classic. Nye should have instead spent more time making more episodes of 'Men Behaving Badly'.