A Fistful of Fingers

A Fistful of Fingers is a 1995 British Western comedy film written and directed by Edgar Wright in his feature-length directorial debut.

A Fistful of Fingers
Poster for the 20th anniversary
Directed byEdgar Wright
Produced byEdgar Wright
Daniel Figuero
Zygi Kamasa
Gareth Owen
Written byEdgar Wright
Music byFrançois Evans
CinematographyAlvin Leong
Edited byGiles Harding
Production
company
Wrightstuff Pictures
Distributed byBlue Dolphin Film Distribution
Release date
  • 1995 (1995)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15,000

It is a remake of an earlier, and even lower-budget, film of the same name by Wright and starring Graham Low which had been made while they were still at school. The original Fistful of Fingers was never picked up by a distributor, but did receive enough local attention—along with Wright's other school-era spoofs such as Carbolic Soap, The Unparkables, and Rolf Harris Saves the World—for Wright to win funding for the 1995 remake.

Cast
  • Graham Low as No-Name
  • Oli van der Vijver as The Squint
  • Nicola Stapleton as Floozy
  • Martin Curtis as Running Sore
  • Jeremy Beadle as Himself
  • Neil Mullarkey as Stand Up Comedian
  • Dan Palmer as "Pile-On" Kid
  • Mark Sheffield as Calamity Keith
  • Edgar Wright as Cheesy Voiceover Artist/Two Bit Farmer Cameo
  • Quentin Green as Jimmy James

Release

It opened at the Prince Charles Cinema on 24 November 1995,[1] and debuted in the United States 20 years later at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles as a midnight movie.[2]

The film was never commercially available on home video in either country, although Wright said in 2015 that he hoped to "finally release it [...] with a commentary and everything".[3]

Reception

Derek Elley of Variety said the film showed, "more wit and invention than most of its no-budget Brit saddlemates."[4] Time Out said, "Wright may not be in the class of Robert Rodriguez, but he has talent", and said the film was, "Best seen after a couple of beers."[5] Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com called it, "...delightfully dorky, irreverent and scrappy, the exact kind of project a young filmmaker would make if they just wanted to make fellow nerds laugh and were pretty good at doing so."[6] Ethan Anderton of SlashFilm said, "What makes [the film] so delightful is that it's a spaghetti western send-up that respects the genre as much as it makes fun of it."[7] Stark of Pornokitsch said, "As a Western, it's good fun, and as a debut, it's a hell of an effort."[8] Ramsey Ess of Vulture said, "While [the film] missing many of the trademark editorial flourishes and camera tricks that would be adopted by the time Shaun of the Dead came around, it's still a well-constructed, quickly paced piece of work."[9]

References
  1. Wright, Edgar (21 September 2015). "'A Fistful Of Fingers' 20th Anniversary Screening – Prince Charles Cinema, London 24/11/15". Edgar Wright Here. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  2. Cinefamily. "HEAVY MIDNITES: A Fistful of Fingers (US Premiere!)". Cinefamily. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  3. Semlyen, Nick de. "Edgar Wright's A Fistful Of Fingers: once upon a time in the West Country". Empire. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  4. Elley, Derek (26 November 1995). "A Fistful of Fingers". Variety. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  5. "A Fistful of Fingers (1995)". Time Out. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. Allen, Nick. ""IT'S PECKINPAH-TASTIC!": ON EDGAR WRIGHT'S FEATURE DEBUT, "A FISTFUL OF FINGERS"". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. Anderton, Ethan. "'A Fistful of Fingers': The Delightfully Goofy Beginning of Edgar Wright's Career". SlashFilm. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  8. Stark. "Stark Reviews: A Fistful of Fingers (1995)". Pornokitsch. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  9. Ess, Ramsey. "Edgar Wright's Forgotten Film Debut 'A Fistful of Fingers'". Vulture. Retrieved 7 March 2020.


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