Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears
Drama Re-release of Stephen Frears's celebrated 1987 biopic of Joe Orton, based on a screenplay by Alan Bennett, centring on the tempestuous relationship between the hugely talented gay playwright and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, which flies in the face of homosexuality laws of the time. When fame comes knocking at Orton's door, Halliwell feels somehow abandoned and he vents his anger by battering Orton to death in the home they share.
Directed by Stephen Frears
Starring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters
110 mins
15 certificate
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