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lazen
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Asteve
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| 10/07/2008 5:46 AM |
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I remember that film - but I fail to see the relation to mortgages... it was about a disastrously flawed building that was bought by an aspirational couple using 'family money' before they discovered the level of work that it would require.
Curiously, today, such facts wouldn't matter much. I'd buy the place... I'd wheel a caravan in and demolish myself at weekends... before re-building from scratch.
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lazen
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| 10/07/2008 7:59 AM |
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Oh its rare to get full length feature films dealing with any aspect of house purchase as its main theme.
I thought the cheesy grinning couple on the cover was indicative of the
1980s Housing Boom optimism.
I agree as you say its principally a film about shoddy workmanship and cowboy exploitation.
Opening scenes show bloated builders turning down jobs at the house
for $1000s and behaving ridiculously-almost like can you bring the house to me?
But it does have some relevance as a whole to the Housing Market
with home improvement TV progs,Sales dips at B & Q.,"doing up"houses etc.
Surely its all part of the same thing?
However the soaring world it portrays looks very different today. |
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