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12 In A Box review

A cynical cash-in on Miranda Hart’s current comic success

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By Stephen Kelly published 18 March 2013

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Writer/director John McKenzie's tale of 12 awful people who must stay in a mansion for 96 hours in the hope of winning £1 million is, essentially, a cynical cash-in on Miranda Hart’s current comic success.

The clues are obvious: it was made in 2007, it features a big ol’ picture of Hart on the poster and, of course, she’s hardly in it.

To her credit, the star’s performance as a furious wife is the best thing here, but you can be sure that this abysmally made, catastrophically clunky attempt at comedy will be something she’d rather forget.

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