A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
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Title: Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (TV Movie 1978)
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3 nominations.
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Neville Smith | ... | Hopkins |
| Julie Walters | ... | Woman in Waiting Room | |
| Frank Middlemass | ... | Doctor | |
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Robert Longden | ... | Mr. Willard |
| Olga Grahame | ... | Bus Conductress | |
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Rosa Roberts | ... | Black Lady |
| Thora Hird | ... | Mrs. Hopkins | |
| Carol MacReady | ... | Wendy | |
| Margaret Courtenay | ... | Mrs. Broadbent | |
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Lynne Carol | ... | Mrs. Tucker |
| Barbara Hicks | ... | Miss Gibbons | |
| Janine Duvitski | ... | Maureen | |
| Derek Thompson | ... | Skinner | |
| Hugh Lloyd | ... | Mr. Dodds | |
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Gillian Martell | ... | Mrs. Garland |
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A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
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Many critics noticed that Neville Smith, in the leading role, seemed to be doing an extended impression of the play's author, Alan Bennett. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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2 December 1978 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Six Plays by Alan Bennett: Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf See more »Filming Locations:
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This is definitely an early work, and it shows. It's a bit long, a bit pausy, occasionally a bit slow-moving. The "hero" (if that's an appropriate word for him) isn't very sympathetic. But there's plenty of clues about the future of Bennett's writing. This is his first work with Thora Hird and Julie Walters, both of whom would go on to glory in both series of Talking Heads, many years later.
There's an overbearing mother, repressed homosexuality, an embarrassingly loud conversation in a cafe, the idea that hippy-ish or left-wing ideas make people uncomfortable, themes of education, failed sexual relationships that are over before they have begun, and, of course, Northern England.
All of the above elements will be honed, improved and adapted in future workings, but this really is the birth of a modern genius. Occasionally a bit tedious, though.