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Writer:
Hanif Kureishi (writer)
Release Date:
30 October 1987 (USA) more
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As London burns...
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Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos... more | add synopsis
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A blistering attack on Thatcherism. more (7 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Shashi Kapoor | ... | Rafi Rahman |
| Frances Barber | ... | Rosie Hobbs |
| Claire Bloom | ... | Alice |
| Ayub Khan-Din | ... | Sammy |
| Roland Gift | ... | Danny / Victoria |
| Wendy Gazelle | ... | Anna |
| Suzette Llewellyn | ... | Vivia |
| Meera Syal | ... | Rani |
| Badi Uzzaman | ... | Ghost |
| Tessa Wojtczak | ... | Bridget |
| Emer Gillespie | ... | Eva |
 | Lesley Manville | ... | Margy |
| Mark Sproston | ... | Young Policeman |
| Cynthia Powell | ... | Woman in Kitchen |
| Dennis Conlon | ... | Asian Shopkeeper |
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Sammy and Rosie (Canada: English title)
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Germany:101 min | USA:100 min | Argentina:101 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Argentina:18 | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:16
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During its initial release, many American newspapers would not run ads with the full title. Ads would show "Sammy and Rosie" printed at the top of a poster, with the bottom part shredded up. more
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Forever Dancing more
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Stephen Frears intended for this film to make war on the politics of Margaret Thatcher, which he believed were responsible for a breakdown of English society. The film touches upon all of the major issues of England in the 1980s, some would say without covering any of them sufficiently. The figures of Sammy, Rosie, Anna, and Danny (or Victoria, as he calls himself) do their best to come to grips with the world around them, while Rafi and Alice, members of an older generation, can do little more than observe and mourn. Rosie's lesbian friends look at her lifestyle and pronounce: "This is liberalism gone mad", not realizing that she is merely living up to the egalitarianism they espouse. Some would have problems choosing a central character, but I choose Rosie. She is linchpin and catalyst, and at times utterly unreadable.