 The resulting film, the American version of "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" was a successful release for Miramax in the summer of 1982.This release presaged a "modus operandi" that the company would undertake later in the 1980s of acquiring films from international filmmakers and reworking them to suit American sensibilities and audiences.Among the company's other breakthrough films as distributors in the late 1980s and early 1990s were "Pulp Fiction"; "Scandal"; "Sex, Lies, and Videotape"; "Tie Me Up!