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Julian Mitchell (play)
Release Date:
June 1984 (UK)
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The smash hit London play now a big screen event . . . not to be missed! [Australia theatrical] more
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Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 3 BAFTA Film Awards.
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(4 articles)
Screen Queens: Another Country
(From FilmExperience. 1 November 2009, 7:30 AM, PST)
Tuesday Top Ten: The Best of 1984
(From FilmExperience. 16 May 2009, 4:13 AM, PDT)
(From FilmExperience. 1 November 2009, 7:30 AM, PST)
Tuesday Top Ten: The Best of 1984
(From FilmExperience. 16 May 2009, 4:13 AM, PDT)
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Truly brilliant, although quintessentially English
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rupert Everett | ... | Guy Bennett | |
| Colin Firth | ... | Tommy Judd | |
| Michael Jenn | ... | Barclay | |
| Robert Addie | ... | Delahay | |
| Rupert Wainwright | ... | Donald Devenish | |
| Tristan Oliver | ... | Fowler | |
| Cary Elwes | ... | James Harcourt | |
| Frederick Alexander | ... | Jim Menzies | |
| Adrian Ross Magenty | ... | Wharton | |
| Geoffrey Bateman | ... | Yevgeni | |
| Philip Dupuy | ... | Martineau | |
| Guy Henry | ... | Head Boy | |
| Jeffrey Wickham | ... | Arthur | |
| John Line | ... | Best Man | |
| Gideon Boulting | ... | Trafford |
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Loosely based on the life of Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge Spy Ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. The upper class establishment refused to believe he was a spy because he had been to public school.
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Referenced in Wanderlust (2006) (TV)
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I was living in France when this film was first released. I had seen the stage play and thoroughly enjoyed it. The film was so good I actually saw it twice over it's opening weekend.
The bulk of the action is set in an English boarding school in the 1930s. This is marvelously portrayed - school bullies, inter house rivalries, the cadet force, cricket - and there is some marvelous interaction between Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. The latter's impassioned defence of Stalin is understated comedy at its finest.
This is a film of great subtlety and beauty, well acted, and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack.