The Supergrass


The Supergrass is a 1985 British comedy film written and directed by Peter Richardson. The film stars Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, Ronald Allen, and Robbie Coltrane. The Supergrass was the first feature length film by the 1980s alternative comedy group The Comic Strip.
The soundtrack to the film featured original music from Keith Tippett, plus music from P.P. Arnold, Grace Jones, and Bob Marley, among others.

Plot

After returning from a holiday in the West Country, Dennis Carter tries to impress a girl by untruthfully boasting of being a drug smuggler. The girl is unimpressed; however, he is overheard by the police, who persuade him to become a supergrass and inform on his associates. The more Dennis lies, the bigger the hole he digs for himself.

Cast

The version of the film initially released in the cinema ran to one hundred and seven minutes and nine seconds, which was subsequently released on VHS running to one hundred and two minutes and fifty three seconds, due to PAL speed-up.
The film was screened by Channel 4 on 13 March 1988, as a prelude to the fourth series of The Comic Strip Presents, but this was a version cut down to ninety three minutes and twenty six seconds, equivalent to ninety seven minutes and twenty seconds in the cinema, so missing some nine minutes and forty nine seconds. All subsequent VHS and DVD releases, included the "complete" Comic Strip box set, use the shorter version.