Johnny English is a 2003 British parody film mocking the
James Bond mystery specialists classification. The film stars Rowan Atkinson,
Ben Miller and John Malkovich. Atkinson had already showed up in the 1983 James
Bond film Never Say Never Again. The screenplay was composed by Bond essayists
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with William Davies, and the film was coordinated
by Peter Howitt. The film aggregated an aggregate of $160 million worldwide.
The film was trailed by a spin-off, 2011's Johnny English Reborn.The film opens
with a fantasy sequence in which Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson), an inept
British Intelligence agent, is "Agent One". He sneaks into a building,
distracts two guard dogs with toys, knocks out two guards and seduces a woman
who threatens him. He is awakened from his fantasy, just as he is about to kiss
the woman, by his sidekick, Angus Bough (Ben Miller). After being assured that
English has checked the submarine hatch codes personally, the real Agent One
(Greg Wise) leaves on a mission. The audience then learn that Agent One died in
action when his submarine hatch "failed to open". A bomb then wipes
out Britain's remaining agents, all of whom were attending the funeral of Agent
One, leaving only English. Nobody notices the hearse, which sped from the scene
minutes earlier.Before his death,
Agent One was investigating a plot to steal the Crown Jewels. Together with
Bough, English takes over the case. While investigating, English becomes
attracted to a mysterious woman, Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia), whom he
meets at the unveiling of the newly restored Crown Jewels, where English is in
charge of the security. The power to the room is cut, and English accidentally
knocks out the chief of security, before pretending to fight a criminal in
another room in an attempt to cover up this fact. Later, Bough and English
follow a tunnel and find the Jewels, but fail to stop the thieves after English
accidentally ejects the magazine from his pistol. Watch Movie
Directed by
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Peter Howitt
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Produced by
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Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner, Mark
Huffam
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Written by
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Neal Purvis , Robert Wade, William
Davies, ,
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Starring
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Rowan Atkinson, Natalie
Imbruglia, Ben Miller, John Malkovich
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Music by
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Edward Shearmur
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Cinematography
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Remi Adefarasin
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Edited by
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Robin Sales
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Production
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StudioCanal
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company
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Working Title Films
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Country
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United Kingdom
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Language
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English
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