Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jonathan Pryce | ... | James Penfield | |
William Maxwell | ... | Journalist | |
Paul Jesson | ... | Journalist | |
Andy Rashleigh | ... | Journalist | |
Christopher Fulford | ... | Young Journalist | |
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David Lyon | ... | Newsreader |
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David de Keyser | ... | Gold |
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Polly Abbott | ... | Gold's Assistant |
Tim Curry | ... | Jeremy Hancock | |
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Charlie Dore | ... | Susan Barrington |
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Peter Walmsley | ... | Bob Tuckett |
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Robert Cartland | ... | Editor (as Bob Cartland) |
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Nat Jackley | ... | Mr. Penfield |
Pearl Hackney | ... | Mrs. Penfield | |
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Simon Stokes | ... | Edward |
James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.
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.