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Director:
David Hare
Writer:
David Hare (writer)
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Release Date:
19 July 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery more
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins more
User Comments:
bizarre more (11 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

Vanessa Redgrave ... Jean Travers

Ian Holm ... Stanley Pilborough

Judi Dench ... Marcia Pilborough

Stuart Wilson ... Mike Langdon

Tim McInnerny ... John Morgan
Suzanna Hamilton ... Karen Creasy

Tom Wilkinson ... Roger Braithwaite
Marjorie Yates ... Verity Braithwaite
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Katy Behean ... Young Marcia
Ted Beyer ... Police Sergeant
Patrick Blackwell ... Derek
Ian Bleasdale ... Neurotic Teacher

Howard Crossley ... Policeman
Penny Downie ... Chrissie
David Foreman ... Young Malay

Christopher Fulford ... Arthur
Matthew Guinness ... Randall
Robert Hines ... Jim Mortimer
Mike Kelly ... CID Policeman
Bert King ... Mr. Mortimer
Richard Marris ... Sir Thomas
Peter Martin ... Helpful Parent
Norman Mills ... Drama Teacher
Guy Nicholls ... Mr. Varley

Joely Richardson ... Young Jean Travers
Vanessa Rosenthal ... Pretentious Parent
Marjorie Sudell ... Lily
Paula Tilbrook ... Mrs. Mortimer
Diane Whitley ... Policewoman
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Directed by
David Hare 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
David Hare  writer

Produced by
Patsy Pollock .... associate producer
Simon Relph .... producer
 
Original Music by
Nick Bicât 
 
Cinematography by
Stuart Harris 
 
Film Editing by
Chris Wimble 
 
Production Design by
Hayden Griffin 
 
Art Direction by
Jamie Leonard 
 
Costume Design by
Jane Greenwood 
Lindy Hemming 
 
Makeup Department
Christopher Tucker .... special makeup effects artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ian Madden .... assistant director
Asad Qureshi .... third assistant director
 
Sound Department
Gerry Humphreys .... sound re-recording mixer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Ashley Kennedy .... best boy
Shaun O'Dell .... camera operator
Micky Thomas .... gaffer
 
Music Department
Tony Britten .... conductor
Tony Britten .... music arranger
 
Transportation Department
Richard Booz .... transportation captain
 
Other crew
Mike Dempsey .... title designer
Laura Julian .... production coordinator
Sarah Lucraft .... assistant accountant
 

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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:102 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Rumor has it that _David Hare (I)_ created the role of June Travis, played by _Vanessa Redgrave_, in order to examine Prime Minister _Margaret Thatcher_ as a product of British history. more
Quotes:
Stanley Pilborough: I expect good of nobody... and I'm sometimes pleasantly surprised. When I find good, my first feeling is one of nostalgia for something we've lost. Ask John Morgan...
John Morgan: Well, I don't know. I only know goodness... and anger... and revenge and evil and desire. These seem to me far better words then 'neurosis' and 'psychology' and 'paranoia'. These old words, these good old words have a sort of... conviction... which all this modern apparatus of language now lacks. We bury these words, these simple feelings. We bury them deep. And all the building over that constitutes this century will not wish these feelings away.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Krótki film o zabijaniu (1988) more

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7 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
bizarre, 19 February 2005
Author: loydmooney from san francisco

Another puzzle movie where there is are ludicrously scrambled pieces. If this is all about loneliness and despair, look at how much more gripping something like The Entertainer is. There is something extremely shallow about this film: I guess if you want to make something about despair and keep it really boring, really empty, voila, then people can read about what they want the full extent of their own despair and loneliness into it.

Probably one of the reviewers here is very right: Pinter seems always lurking in the wings of any scene. Hare, however is certainly his own man, very determined fellow to lead us nowhere with some kind of minor supine surprise at the end, to let us think we have solved the Rosebud mystery of this movie: like Kane, another jigsaw puzzle of a movie.

Even Kubrick's The Killing, another scrambled movie, though hardly on this scale, would have been better told straight forwardly.

Moreover, notice the blah response of the great unwashed public to this film. This baby shot past them on quiet rails in the dead of night, because it was just too tortured for its own good.

As for a great performance by Redgrave, well, sure. The woman cannot deliver a single unbelievable line. She is one of the great great actress of all time: spooky how she disappears into every role she ever did.

The only real puzzle for me, is...you guessed it. Why did they ever bother to shoot the first reel.

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