<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7.7 million (North America) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 British - French romantic black comedy crime drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Alan Howard in the titular roles . The film's graphic scatology, violence, and nude scenes, as well as its lavish cinematography and formalism, were noted at the time of its release . </P> <P> English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high - class Le Hollandais Restaurant, run by French chef Richard Boarst . Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs . His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses, but whose money he seems not to miss . </P>

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