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Mood:
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- ProdigyWriter's LifeRebelliousnessTragic LoveArtists and ShowbizCrimesDeadlyLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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- EnglandEurope
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Prick Up Your Ears, 1987
English
UK
Profile of Prick Up Your Ears
The mood of Prick Up Your Ears is clever, gloomy, and tense. The plot centers around a prodigy, rebelliousness, and tragic love. It is a drama and independent movie. In approach, Prick Up Your Ears is serious and realistic. The setting is England. It happens in the 1960s. Prick Up Your Ears is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie is known for being a masterpiece, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes sexual content, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Prick Up Your Ears
PRICK UP YOUR EARS is the tragic, true story of flamboyant British playwright Joe Orton, from his days as a drama student, through his meteoric rise to fame in British theatre, to his violent death at the hands of his envious lover Kenneth Halliwell. Gary Oldman portrays the rebellious Orton, who rose to success in the 1960s with his plays, LOOT and WHAT THE BUTLER SAW. Orton charmed theatrical society while living illegally as a homosexual, dangerously taking lovers and street hustlers, and living with his long-term collaborator Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina) whose rage and envy prompted him to violently murder Orton in 1967.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 17 April 1987 |
| Runtime: | 111 min |
Cast and Crew
as Joe Orton
as Kenneth Halliwell
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