Honest

2000

Johnny's comments:

Have never seen Honest before and it was never released in Australia despite All Saints being a huge band around that time. I bought it from the UK for 1 cent (plus postage) a few years back (I also bought the DVD for the TV series Honest, a remake of the New Zealand show Outrageous Fortune at the same time and haven't capped that either). Directed by Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics, it's a late 60s set crime thriller with a darkly comic edge where the two Appleton sisters and Melanie Blatt play sisters who rob for a living and then get in over their head.

Older sister Gerry (Nicole Appleton) gets caught by American rich kid Daniel (Peter Facinelli) during a heist and they end up falling for one another. The other sisters rob the wrong guy and one of them gets shot and now they have a gangster after them. Then the sisters and Daniel go for one last heist, a stash of money hidden in the pussy of a mannequin art piece before they leave the country and it's nailbiting stuff.

Surprisingly low key movie, the All Saints girls aren't great actresses and would never act again (the other All Saint not in this movie, Shaznay Lewis would also only act in one movie: Bend It Like Beckham) but Nicole Appleton looks like she stepped out of 1968 while no-one else does. The plot is pretty silly but the final act is fairly exciting and the Appleton sisters both have nude scenes so you can't complain about that.

Natalie Appleton, Nicole Appleton and others film clip (collages below)

Natalie Appleton

Nicole Appleton

Renata Habelinkova and Karina Iszatt