| | |  | HOLLAND | Home » » Dutch Girls | | | | | | | Description: | | DUTCH GIRLS is a raucous yet touching comedy about the antics of a group of 18-year-old prep school boys on a hockey trip to Amsterdam. Competition among the boys is keen to be chosen for the Strathdonald school hockey squad. Coach Mole is gratified at the sudden interest so many boys are showing in the team. He envisions resounding success on the hockey field with time to spare in the art galleries and museums of the colorful city. But as they hit town, sports and culture are the last things on these lads’ minds. Colin Firth stars as Neil Truelove, a particularly shy and sensitive young player who’s determined to have a fling with a Dutch girl. Co-stars Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall and James Wilby. Produced by Sue Birtwistle (Pride and Prejudice). Presented in Original Full Frame Format (1.33:1) | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Bill Paterson, Colin Firth, Timothy Spall, James Wilby, Daniel Chatto | | Director:
| Giles Foster | | Format:
| Color, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Henstooth Video | | Run Time:
| 83 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| November 15, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 10 reviews |
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Dutch GirlsAug 20, 2006
By Sandra L. Payette
"Sandi Payette"
A funny little movie about young adoleslent boys from a strict prep school hockey team headed for Amsterdam. Colin is so adorable, and quite the gentlemen but very naive. The head master and the coach have ideas on how the young men should behave and represent the school. However, the young men have other ideas and it's presented in the title of the movie. Their antics before getting to Amsterdam and after were funny and delightful, just wasn't enough. His roommate in Amsterdam was just histerical. It was delightful to see Colin at a much younger age, and one can see how he has matured to the handsome and talented man he is today.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Not as good as I rememberedAug 27, 2008
By JFK
It's all a bit dated, sadly - the sort of TV drama we used to see a lot of, but don't get made now; and watching this you can see why. It's all a bit predictable and slow. Still, to be fair, most of the acting is top notch (Colin Firth, Timothy Spall, James Wilby in particular, although the usually excellent Bill Paterson is something of a hammy characature). I know it's a period piece, but it's also a little hard to believe that 18-year old boys as this naive and awkward, even those with a sheltered public school upbringing. Not to mention the leads are a little long in the tooth (Tim Spall pushing thirty by this time). Still, it does have a certain charm and yes, I did enjoy a trip down memory lane.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Innocent story-tellSep 26, 2011
By Michael Kerjman
A group of 18+ school-boy-characters played by about 30y.o. actors went to Holland where more hints than actions happened as they interacted with local gals.
Probably, it was so near-innocent in pre-Beatle era also such a phenomena could hardly appear in the chastity-filled vacuum.
Handsome mostly boys present different trends among which hypocrisy and cheating the best friend to do own way is the most.
I am wondering one could pay a DVD price required.
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Early work of Firth & WilbyJul 20, 2008
By Judith
This is a cute little movie about a hockey team from a British boys school on a road trip to Amsterdam. The pompous coach dreams of glory for the school, but the boys just dream of meeting Dutch girls. This movie is of interest not for the story, but for who is in it. It's the early work of Colin Firth and James Wilby. Firth, of course, went on to hearthrob status as Mr. Darcy. Wilby has made a wonderful career out of starring in high tone Merchant Ivory films like Maurice and brilliant Masterpiece Theater works such as A Tale of Two Cities and Island at War. Though Firth's become the superstar, it's Wilby who shows more potential in this movie, as he attracts your eye in every scene he is in.
Firth plays Neil Truelove, a sensitive, brooding teen. He spends most of the movie making sad eyes at the camera, and he was really a painfully pretty young man. Wilby plays Philip Dundine, Truelove's best mate. Despite being tall and gorgeous, and more outgoing and confident, he's not having any better luck with the Dutch girls than Truelove is. A third boy is Lyndon, a pig of a lad who romps around in bikini underwear, despite having a body we certainly don't want to see in bikini underwear. He's the houseguest from Hell to his Dutch host family as he gets drunk and throws up on the carpet, throws food around, brings a bimbo home to have sex with her in the living room, and never flushes the toilet.
Although these fellows are supposed to be schoolboys in their teens, they can't quite pull that off. Firth is still boyishly slender and has a baby face, but still doesn't look like a teenager. Wilby, despite a teen haircut, has a man's body. The actor playing Lyndon looks like he's about thirty.
One bit of trivia. The captain of the team is played by Daniel Chatto, who later married the Duke of Kent's daughter, which makes him a fringe member of the British royal family.
Though this isn't a great film, it is interesting enough to entertain a viewer, though it probably won't go on anybody's top ten list. Just a pleasant little bit of fluff made more interesting by the presence of Firth and Wilby.
Young Firth, Young Spall and othersOct 22, 2011
By KMM
A certainly harmless take on young English boys, off on an adventure, with restrictions from their chaperone/coach, played by Bill Paterson. A rather clumsy group of field hockey players from a boys' boarding school get the chance to go play their counterparts in Holland. They want the adventure of drinking, partying and meeting girls much more than playing their sport.
This film is the old story of teenage boys coming of age, so that part is a lot of seen-it-before.
It is mostly interesting because of the very young Colin Firth and Timothy Spall, later to become icons of British acting. Both are very good, as is usually the case with these two very fine actors who, of course, went on to greater performances later in their lives.
Firth was around 24 and Spall 27 or 28 when they made this, both playing 17 or 18-year old boys. Baby faced Firth carries it off very well.
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