Nuts in May [full movie]

[@rssmdb1]

My sister and I spent most of our childhood imitating Keith and Candice-Marie. Our local library had this on VHS and we were the only people to ever check it out. 😂 imagine two wee 8 and 10 year olds going on about “accredited herds,” “Onky and Finga” and “the killer whites” 😂😂😂

[@soapmode]

That's hilarious, nice one. It's a great play.

[@CompassionCrew]

I hope you still sneak those references in :)

[@alphaprobe1710]

"Onky, thev cut the grass up ee-a!"

[@scottyovgy2]

The Academic Agent bought me here, this is excellent!

[@paddybpaddyb9940]

"What are you weading Keith?" "The Guinness book of records" "Kiss pwudence" "No"

[@shortallliam3142]

Absolutely timeless: I first saw the short version on BBC 2 as an innocent 8-year old, and laughted my head off. Now, as a 55-year old, I laugh even more now that the more subtle things don't "go over my head..."🤣 God forbid if I actually had to work with any "Keiths"of this world.

[@Tinkerbelle610]

Genius. I know these character types so well.

[@CelticSaint]

Progressive Liberals.

[@generalguy6211]

@@CelticSaint Yes and no. Progressive liberalism is relatively new, but these archetypes are eternal. Back in the days the world had the over the top christian versions of them. That said I'd rather choose the older versions of them.

[@MattDollMusic]

@@CelticSaint I’ve met many Keith’s lately screaming at me to wear a mask. He’s that type

[@elizabethcosslett8937]

Yes!!

[@garrycane1170]

I remember watching this as part of the play for today series. Such a great play. Thanks for posting.

[@blakestewart7200]

Thanks so much for posting! One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and one of the best, most hilarious climaxes in film.

[@Smudgie]

I love this film. I've watched it many times now and still find something new and fresh in it. Keith is just so typically English with his self-imposed restrictions and rules, that give him a reason to moan when they aren't adhered to.

[@jm-np4mu]

In reality very few English people are actually like that, not at all typical. Keith is a nutcase with OCD's!

[@generalguy6211]

As a not English person with my "self-imposed" restrictions and rules, I can say that he's not an English-only stereotype. And no, we're not (all) nutcases thank you very much.

[@thadtuiol1717]

It's basic shitlib behavior, this is just the English franchise. Trust me, there are plenty of white Americans just like this. PIA the lot of them.

[@justinebourke2811]

Everyone's encountered people like this pair at some stage so it makes this such a great film to watch in company, have a giggle and swap stories after 😊😊😊

[@shortallliam3142]

Well said, Justine🤣!

[@pensamisempre]

I think Candice Marie's 'I Can't hear you!' on the cliff is the theme line of this movie.

[@michaeljames1714]

So very, very funny. Watched it years ago and I know people like Candice Marie and Keith. I have to stop watching for a while. I have tears running down my face.

[@MrMousley]

I remember watching this for the first time just after watching Abigail's Party and finding it hard to believe that Candice Marie and Beverly were both played by the same person .. and I've been a fan of Alison Steadman ever since.

[@hyena131]

MrMousley Same with a lot of actors and actresses Mike Leigh works with. Leslie Manville morphs in to different beings.

[@dmjobful]

Thanks - I was trying to work out whether it was her or not.

[@elizabethcosslett8937]

That is Alison Steadman?? Oh wow. Brilliant actor!

[@AmonetteCapella]

Thank you so much for this!!

[@Helmholtzwatson1984]

I hope there are places in Britain that are still like this.

[@AntPDC]

In abundance.

[@AntPDC]

Love Alison's singing voice!

[@cynthialyman2636]

Alison Steadman's Candace Marie is such a departure from her abrasive Beverly in Abigail's Party. She's astonishing and her husband Mike Leigh used her well, time and again.

[@davidtunnicliff5442]

i only just recognised who she was ...excellent.

[@cynthialyman2636]

It took me a minute, too. She's fantastic.

[@cynthialyman2636]

david tunnicliff Yes, she's a treasure.

[@stephenfoz1307]

Roger Sloman is also quite different from how he was as Three-Fingered Pete in Blackadder!

[@jonstone5644]

she speaks very highly of you too.

[@grahamblack1961]

I love how Keith is both so right and so wrong at the same time.

[@ColmRooney]

I think he's pretty logical altogether but has an over the top way of expressing

[@anthonyogrady1081]

keith keith keith

[@soapmode]

Poor Keith is intelligent and neurotic, a timeless misfit. A good yet prickly soul.

[@elizabethcosslett8937]

Yes! I wish more people stood up for the countryside, but he did it in the wrong way

[@jessrushby-smith4289]

what a fuckin top film, my mum has always reckoned there’s two types of people, those who get Nuts in May and those who don’t

[@paddybpaddyb9940]

Totally right

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

Somewhere around here I’ve got a little spiral bound notebook of accommodation and food expenses from my UK holiday. Six pounds a night for a B&B on Goodge Street.

[@stevem815]

Keith is the distillation of a certain trait in every man. I feel the Keith strong in me and it's a great benefit to see it summed up in a character like this. I can give it a name, and in doing so hopefully keep it in check when I don't want to share the guidebook with my wife.

[@user-hu3iy9gz5j]

It’s the pedantic urge for stasis

[@stevem815]

@@user-hu3iy9gz5j maybe for some people, for me i find it's more that i get a bit obsessive about what I'm doing and start to see other people who don't share the obsession as being a bit lacking and i can get frustrated and fall into disregarding their feelings or thinking that they're incompetent. Obviously the film is satirizing and exaggerating Keith's personality type, but there is a problem there which is very hard to solve, which is the conflict between people who are quite meticulous, highly sensitive etc. who want to order and understand everything and the rest of the world who generally aren't that interested. It's hard to describe the problem without sounding judgemental, but I think the Keith's of the world often suffer from having their sensitivity turned up to 11, which makes them capable of producing amazing things, but also makes a lot of things in the 'normal' world hard to deal with and they end up very irritable and isolated, or worse.

[@user-hu3iy9gz5j]

@@stevem815 They want to turn their own preferences into reality and thus synthezise their wills with the world. I struggled as a boy with irritations caused by my own unreasonable demands on the surroundings. We have to let go of our will to control everything

[@stevem815]

@@user-hu3iy9gz5j yes, but i think the crucial point is that they want the space to appreciate or create genuinely beautiful and fascinating things. It's like trying to learn a Bach concerto while someone else in your house blasts rap music, except at a low level, all day, every day. It's ok if you have the means to get away from it all and go into those creative/intellectual pursuits, but for people stuck in the rat race it can be pretty torturous. I think a lot of them basically end up self medicating to create a bit of a buffer, which obviously just makes everything way worse long term.

[@curlytoes22]

@@stevem815 Okay - line 2, slightly different, you see...

[@Sam_Green____4114]

At the beginning they get off the Sandbanks - Studland ferry at Studland and drive through Hartland moor then next drive past Corfe Castle ! How ? Because Hartland Moor isn't on the Studland - Corfe Castle road ! The camp site they arrive at is currently called Ponderosa and is between Corfe Castle and Swanage .They are at Corfe Castle at 05:34 !! Lulworth cove at 21:12 ! The Stone quarry is at Langton Matravers ! l thought Durdle Door at 20:05 ? But l though the arch was taller !?

[@Sam_Green____4114]

and l knew that Copper at the end - ee wear a reet bar stew ed ee wear !!

[@James-n8v1g]

Is that you Keith?

[@Sam_Green____4114]

No it's Sam idiot !@@James-n8v1g

[@rupert-j8f]

Wow 40 years old and still such a great play these sort of people are still about just a great play "kiss prudence".

[@AntPDC]

Atavism subsists even among those who profess a higher calling. That's what did for Keith.

[@ceilingsandfloors]

9:48 I actually counted and found that he did in fact chew somewhere quite close to that number.

[@paddybpaddyb9940]

Get out much?

[@paulfitzpatrick2688]

The actor who played Keith was only 28.

[@ColmRooney]

wow, well actually I can believe it since he looks like me. Balding and ginger beard ftw..

[@samnicholson5051]

@@ColmRooney I see that that you're also a vegan and enjoy playing songs in the woods...

[@CrimsonNClova]

Where are the dungeons, Keith?

[@deletist_]

"would you like to see the pebbles i've collected?" 🤣😂

[@kiviuq3495]

"Cigarette smoke, it makes me choke, liver makes me shiver". That made my vodka go down the wrong way.

[@soilcredibility]

It's "litter makes me shiver"

[@yasminedey8612]

Feeling sorry for Ray :D

[@maxshea1829]

It's a little magnet one used to reset its indi-ceees.

[@Pavanesound]

I can't do more than 10 minutes of this at a time...but I'm determined to get through to the end. I've made a real commitment. 10 minutes a day with a cup of tea...should take me until...late August. I'll let you know when I'm done....

[@ColmRooney]

please check out my playlist- "keeping it real" I might be on the computer but Im trying to keep it real :)

[@sugarsnap1000]

Great movie, he’s a total control freak without realizing he is: reminds me of a teacher back in the day

[@JanetCaterina]

These two are hilarious - are there more movies of these characters?

[@IzaakCha7]

"AND YOU GET BACK TO YOUR TENEMENTS!" 58:16

[@rssmdb1]

Oooooh! Tenements!!! 😂

[@vivalapsych]

A classic!

[@grahamblack1961]

It was so ahead of it's time, it would be another 20 years before comedy about social awkwardness would be in vogue with shows like I'm Alan Partridge. It would be another 40 years before self righteous wokeness would rule the world.

[@noone8118]

Diane Morgan brought me here

[@whiteshirtonline]

Me too

[@gard-g1l]

me three

[@actingwithgarethharris9920]

me 4

[@friendlier]

One of my go-to's for non-stop laughs. At the expense of Keith and Candice Marie of course. Well, we've all known a Keith and a Candice Marie.

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

I dont

[@grahamblack1961]

I don't know who to feel more sorry for. Candice-Marie for having to put up with Keith or Keith for having to put up with Candice-Marie.

[@AntPDC]

***SPOILER ALERT*** Keith is eaten alive by the feral pigs at close; went "back to nature", as it were.

[@ashleyburns6752]

God England of the 1970s is completely alien to the England of today.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Yeah, it was still largely for the English.

[@blondeeagles]

Leave it to me, Candice-Marie

[@elizabethcosslett8937]

Could a police officer in England really harass a guy like that for absolutely no reason?? I don't live there, so interested

[@monkmell]

Thanks for posting this! I watched it years ago and found Keith and Candice-Marie so extreme with their ‘fanatics’ about the environment and pollutants, to the point of irritation …looks like we’re the stupid ones now after all that we now know about our ruined climate due to human greed and stupidity. I now find myself agreeing with them and their ideologies. Brilliant drama and so well executed (as Keith might say!) 😊

[@thadtuiol1717]

They are the epitome of Western liberals, and they are a danger to the whole world with their moralizing and crusading.

[@baysideharpy8350]

We still do Keith and Candace-Marie at family gatherings

[@enisen2977]

40:33 - Golden

[@IzaakCha7]

"No, I am not going to (hit you)" *a few milliseconds later:* "GETAWAYFROMMEI'LLKNOCKYOURHEADOFF!!!" 1:05:06

[@nicolewilliams6052]

Good quality thanks!

[@shanewright2772]

It's fascinating to think that both Keith and Basil Fawlty existed in the same time in the same fictional universe.

[@paddybpaddyb9940]

Let's stick them together with that Bucket woman from Keeping up Appearences & Victor Meldrew, imagine being chained to a radiator with that lot

[@richardjames3356]

I'm imagining Keith & Candice Marie checking in at Fawlty Towers now..

[@chrisoleson9570]

Keith is a first cousin of Basil Fawlty.

[@shortallliam3142]

You know what would have been REAL FUN, Mate? Keith and Candice-Marie staying at Fawlty Towers and Basil / Keith arguments...🤣

[@anaccount8474]

Let's ask Ray.

[@michaeldao1]

@1:06:12 What does he call him?

[@rupert-j8f]

I think he calls him a bastard. The Birmingham accent is quite strong.

[@stoolpigeon4285]

Let's ask Ray shall we, c'mon

[@chrispalin4043]

It's a great character study. Keith is right about almost everything, but when you combine it all together, he's completely wrong. It shows, to be a successful human, you basically have to break rules.

[@rosemarymccarron3887]

A great and funny film.

[@cynthialyman2636]

Ray contemplates suicide.

[@tonkerdog1]

There’s a very Facebook group if anyone’s interested.

[@christianquinones8081]

Edgar wrights recommend it. He brought me here

[@mortinshart]

The fact that Mark Kermode referred to this as "up there with Withnail and I" baffles me. That said, it is quite charming and inoffensive.

[@stoolpigeon4285]

I agree with him. Classic

[@hyena131]

@mortinshart While 'Nuts in May' and 'Withnail and I' are fundamentally different, they're both gems and a comparison is fair.

[@paulfitzpatrick2688]

Candice Maria is so cute!

[@4june9140]

The husbands voice is boring in fact he is bloody boring..a real control freak ;-) Brilliant actors all of them.

[@paddybpaddyb9940]

Just so patronising, I really hope he's not like that in real life, it' a good job that we don't have guns in England

[@dadodydo]

Economics are at the root of quite a few of today's world problems. Even more so today than back in 1976. On the other hand, the featured landscapes are very beautiful. "I want to see the zoo, she said" -- ha, ha!

[@davewray9909]

Macca's Magneto & Titanium Man!

[@thadtuiol1717]

Keith is the archetypal Western shitlib, or at least the English version of that - brilliant portrayal. I loathe these people, and there are even more of them around today.

[@AntPDC]

Like the Greens - Stalinist all.

[@simonewilliams9056]

Camping nightmares... Keith is ahead of his time with respect for the environment, shame he is an such a self opionated 60s male stereotype.

[@alphaprobe1710]

Look at thaaaat! Corfe Carstle!

[@GavTatu]

one could take a darker step forward after this, and watch sightseers.

[@dalesco4205]

I'd love to see Hollywood's remake of Nuts in May... Keith as a serial killer on the run, alongside Candice Marie, who'd start having an affair with Ray, while Honky and Finger would make great cocaine smugglers. Of course, a few aliens could be thrown in too, to spice up the action.

[@hyena131]

@dalesco4205 And the endless gunfire and car chases would be an added bonus...

[@rupert-j8f]

theres a british film that is sort of like nuts in may just much more violent called "sightseers" it is worth a watch.

[@paulbroderick8438]

A couple of would-be watered down hippies on the loose. Keith is an AH, all the way! Greetings from a Brit in the USA.

[@megan6439]

Why, that's number 4 Candice Marie!

[@MBFLA45]

Well... that was odd. I enjoyed it but my wife thought it was awful.

[@paddybpaddyb9940]

Some people just don't get it

[@mrzolo4503]

deeply subversive

[@thadtuiol1717]

Shush, don't let the Lefties know, they think this is on their side.

[@mikewalsh6168]

Roger Sloman with that really irritating voice

[@hyena131]

@mikewalsh6168 Yes, that's the idea. The awful smug voice is what makes Keith Pratt so splendid.

[@richardjames3356]

It's Candice Marie's whining that annoys my wife. I only have to say "Ke-eeith.." and she knows what kind of person I'm on about.

[@brianm2881]

Get back ta bed!!

[@justinebourke2811]

😅😂😂👍👍👌

[@jimroberts1334]

A wasted 81 minutes of my life that I will never get back again!

[@ColmRooney]

dear me, in exchange I can send you 81 minutes of my personal healing energy. If my meditation power reaches 100% you can have 10%( that might work). Have you seen "What the Health?" & "The Greatest Adventure"? Both inspiring films. Also Cowspiracy. Quite old tho

[@ClearLight1967]

Some people have no idea...

[@justinebourke2811]

Fuck me, have you been given 2 months to live or something? Could've been a lot worse, man - like 99% of what's on telly now is either mind-rotting mediocracy or manipulative propaganda, I'd rather old movies anyday - even bad ones..but it's down to individual taste I guess 😃

[@justinebourke2811]

@@ColmRooney Oh no - another hippy! 😅

[@MrMousley]

You wasted 81 minutes What were you doing for the other 7 seconds if you watched this ? No, seriously, what was wrong ? No car chases, no sex, no ........... never mind.

[@michaelforde4373]

This is what brexit Britain will be like

[@Clissoldkid]

No, it's entirely the opposite. These two are 45 years ahead of their time. Nowadays they're just typical Guardian readers, prissily judgmental about anyone who doesn't subscribe to their vegan, rule-prescribed set of beliefs, and trapped in the prison of their own closed minds. They are Remainers through and through, terrified of life outside The Institution, whimpering because they're being torn from the EU teat.

[@stephensaunderson237]

Get a life mate. If you would rather be part of a European Federalist superstate with the behaviour that will promote then good luck to you. Sadly for you the majority of the country dont want that and disagree thank goodness.

[@thuglifebear5256]

Did we just see the same movie? This movie is about YOU, dumbass.

[@CrimsonNClova]

Haha! If only!

[@richardjames3356]

​@Clissoldkid Just read John Cooper Clarke's autobiography. He shared a house with people like this in the early 70s. Apparently he told one of them, "Fucking hell, you lot are hard work - we only have ten commandments!" 😂