Cast overview: | |||
Alan Bates | ... | John | |
Gina Bellman | ... | Helen | |
Frances Barber | ... | Angela | |
Tony Doyle | ... | Martin | |
Joanna David | ... | Kate | |
Colin Jeavons | ... | Vicar | |
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Rowena Cooper | ... | Vicar's Wife |
Ian McNeice | ... | First Businessman | |
Davyd Harries | ... | Second Businessman | |
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Niven Boyd | ... | BR Steward / Patient |
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Martin Whiting | ... | Young John |
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Roy Hamilton | ... | Singer |
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Dave Swift | ... | Musician (as David Swift) |
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Nicholas Russell-Pavier | ... | Musician |
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Colin Ryan | ... | Musician |
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John (Sir Alan Bates) into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions. Writer and Director Dennis Potter viewed John as "a victim of what he himself has created, a sexual fantasy that gets out of control. Fantasy should be one of the registered sexually transmitted diseases, which in John's case, it is." Written by Bhob Stewart <bhob2@aol.com>