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Dominican Rep. Prick Up your Ears
- Original title
- Prick Up your Ears
- Year
- 1987
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
United Kingdom- Director
- Screenwriter
- Alan Bennett. Biography: John Lahr
- Cast
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Gary Oldman
Alfred Molina
Vanessa Redgrave
Wallace Shawn
Lindsay Duncan
Julie Walters- James Grant
Steven Mackintosh- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy | Gay & Lesbian. 1960s
- Synopsis
- This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Loot and What the Butler Saw is evenly balanced by the bleakness of the playwright's tormented (and tormenting) off-stage existence, which ended suddenly at age 34 with half a dozen blows to the head from a hammer. Prick Up Your Ears is based on the book by theater critic John Lahr, who is played in the film by Wallace Shawn. (Hal Erickson: All Movie Guide)
- Awards
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1987: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection - Nominated to Golden Palm1987: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Redgrave)1987: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Redgrave)1987: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Supp. Actress (Redgrave)1987: BAFTA: 3 Nominations, including Best Actor (Vanessa Redgrave)1987: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film
- Critics' reviews
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"The film is honest and watchable. But, unlike Orton, it takes no real delight in misbehaving."
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