Whisky Galore!

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Whisky Galore!

2017

1h 39m

Comedy

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Islanders off the coast of Scotland compete with a stuffy English commander to recover 50,000 cases of whisky from a wrecked cargo vessel.

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Amy Bowker

Little White Lies

May 19, 2017

2/5

Clunky and affected, with too little drama to carry the narrative.

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Helen O'Hara

Empire Magazine

May 18, 2017

2/5

Too restrained and polite to really grip the attention, this feels more like comfortable Sunday night TV than cinematic fare.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

May 12, 2017

There's little to dislike about this second shot of "Whisky," with its appealing ensemble and hat-in-hand approach to the Ealing playbook; there's just equally little reason for it to exist.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 27, 2020

2.5/4.0

Fairly straightforward remake.

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

May 8, 2020

The film is meant to be lighthearted, and that's mostly what it is... A harmless distraction and low-grade wackiness.

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

Apr 17, 2020

3/5

Whisky Galore! is an enjoyable film with comedic elements while maintaining a very serious tone throughout most of it, which ends up adding to the rather dry comedy and fun of it.

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joe d

@Welshboy Dec 13, 2025

Or who told Eddie Izzard he can act? Just off putting, might of got another * & a half if he wasn't in you just feel sorry for the proper actors. It looks good cinematically but I can't see why they made it.

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Feb 10, 2021

Cute, but galaxies away from the charm of the original

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Mar 11, 2019

Good show with engaging characters - critics love to slam a show before the audience can even see it more than one time.

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Jan 1, 2018

Gregor Fisher gets the film off to a difficult start with his hard to follow Scottish accent. Eddie Izzard's performance is akin to an amateur theatrical society's dress rehearsal. Dull as dishwater, lacks any substance or reason to endure.

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Dec 24, 2017

Meh. Very slow paced

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Nov 5, 2017

Wonderful gem of a foreign film! You can safely ignore the reviews here from American critics...who wouldn't know culture if it bit them in the ass!

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Synopsis

Islanders off the coast of Scotland compete with a stuffy English commander to recover 50,000 cases of whisky from a wrecked cargo vessel.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Producer: Iain Maclean, Alan J. Wands
Screenwriter: Peter McDougall
Distributor: Arrow Films
Production Co: Whisky Galore Movie Ltd.
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): May 12, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 28, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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