The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)Director:Richard EyreWriter:Ian McEwan |
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The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)Director:Richard EyreWriter:Ian McEwan |
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| Jonathan Pryce | ... |
James Penfield
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| Tim Curry | ... |
Jeremy Hancock
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| Rosemary Harris | ... |
Ann Barrington
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| Frank Finlay | ... |
Matthew Fox
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Charlie Dore | ... |
Susan Barrington
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David de Keyser | ... |
Gold
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Nat Jackley | ... |
Mr. Penfield
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| Bill Paterson | ... |
Lecturer
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William Maxwell | ... |
Journalist
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Paul Jesson | ... |
Journalist
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Andy Rashleigh | ... |
Journalist
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| Christopher Fulford | ... |
Young Journalist
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David Lyon | ... |
Newsreader
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Polly Abbott | ... |
Gold's Assistant
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Peter Walmsley | ... |
Bob Tuckett
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This is a very cold, well observed multi-layered portrait of a bunch of vile people, all scrambling up and down the greasy pole in the politically bleak bourgeois homeland of Thatcher's Britain at the time of its Falklands War obsession. The central character, an empty, ambitious, morally bankrupt journalist (Jonathan Pryce) is impossible to like or even dislike - just like the film itself. It's like a doctor's accurate diagnosis: you may need to know, but you don't necessarily want to. The photography is beautiful.