 |
|
|
|
| MatchFlick Member Reviews |
1 review / review this flick
|
|
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
From Amazon:
Joe Orton was briefly the embodiment of a certain kind of '60s rebel, and Stephen Frears's film adaptation of the British playwright's biography successfully conjures up that outrageous spirit. The hostile, fussy codependency between Orton (Gary Oldman) and his brooding lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina) forms the centerpiece of a story that features not only Orton's success and his brutal demise at Halliwell's hand, but also a vivid depiction of what gay sexuality meant in a repressive era. What really propels it are the performances--Oldman's naughty, overgrown boy could believably have written Orton's romps, and the powder-keg priss...
| Directed By: | |
| Written By: | |
| Starring: | | |
 |
|
|
WARNING!! - Read This Movie Review At Your Own Risk! - It Doesn't Paint A Very Pretty Picture Of Certain 'Very Real' Members Of Our Diverse Society!!
WHEN SLIME MEETS SLIME........
Slime-Actor, GARY OLDMAN, plays Slime-Playwright, JOE ORTON.
Released in 1987, but set in the Swinging 60's, this bio-flick, PRICK UP YOUR...
(complete Prick Up Your Ears review by CowboyJunkie)
|
|
|
