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A Private Function (1984) 6.4
1947 in a small town in England. The war has been won two years ago, but there's still rationing of meat. When princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a group of businessmen wants to impress ... See full summary » Director:Malcolm Mowbray |
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Gilbert Chilvers
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| Maggie Smith | ... |
Joyce Chilvers
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| Denholm Elliott | ... |
Dr. Charles Swaby
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| Richard Griffiths | ... |
Henry Allardyce the Accountant
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| Tony Haygarth | ... |
Leonard Sutcliff the Farmer
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John Normington | ... |
Frank Lockwood the Solicitor
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Morris Wormold the Meat Inspector
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Liz Smith | ... |
Joyce's Mother
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| Alison Steadman | ... |
Mrs. Allardyce
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| Jim Carter | ... |
Inspector Noble
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| Pete Postlethwaite | ... |
Douglas J. Nuttol the Butcher
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Eileen O'Brien | ... |
Mrs. Sutcliff
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Rachel Davies | ... |
Mrs. Forbes, Wormold's Landlady
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Reece Dinsdale | ... |
P.C. Penny
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Philip Whileman | ... |
Preston Sutcliff
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1947 in a small town in England. The war has been won two years ago, but there's still rationing of meat. When princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a group of businessmen wants to impress (or probably bribe) the local government by giving a big party. They want to slaughter an illegally raised pig for this event. Unfortunately someone steals the pig. Written by Anonymous
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pig | husband wife relationship | 1940s | breaking the law | movie theater |Taglines:
Vicious, Delicious and Tasteless.Genres:
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11 March 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Función privada See more »Company Credits
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Mrs. Dorcus Medcalf: I am, love; I'm planning a trifle.
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The German title of the movie is 'Magere Zeiten', which translates roughly as 'Lean Times' (or 'Hard Times'): the film is set during a period when food was heavily rationed in the United Kingdom. See more »Quotes
P.C. Penny: [upon spotting a single, solitary banana] Mrs Medcalf, are you wanting that banana?Mrs. Dorcus Medcalf: I am, love; I'm planning a trifle.
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A near classic; like something Ealing might have done if, perhaps, raunchier though not necessarily darker. Set at the time of the present Queen Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Phillip, it's about the petty jealousies of the ostensible middle-classes of Northern ration-book Britain.
Michael Palin is Gilbert, a mild-mannered chiropodist, looked down upon, in all senses, by the local community who finds his trump card and way into society in the form of a pig that is being fattened for the private function of the title, a dinner for local dignitaries in celebration of the royal wedding. Maggie Smith is his genteel wife who turns into Lady MacBeth in pursuit of her dreams of fitting in and that great character actress Liz Smith is her slightly dotty mother. Scriptwriter Alan Bennet's depiction of the milieu of false noblesse oblige is as sharp as ever and the entire cast rise to the occasion.