Yet another entry in the "Play for Today" series.
Quoting imdb, a "slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house." Indeed, this is one of the few efforts where, in addition to his familiar exploration of various blue collar themes, Leigh tackles the upper class directly, the most comparable other example being High Hopes.
This came out before the ne...
Mrs. Thornley (Liz Smith) leads a rather miserable existence in Salford. She lives with her husband, Jim (Clifford Kershaw), a night custodian at a toy factory, and their grown daughter, Ann (Polly Hemingway). Mrs. Thornley is a maid who works for an imperious upper-middle class woman, Mrs. Stone (Vanessa Harris). Between her work and her home life, it seems like Mrs. Thornley ...
Richard E. Grant tells the story of Ealing Comedy, one of cinema's most iconic brands.
Play for Today was a series of single dramas broadcast by the BBC between 1970 and 1984. These were years of crisis, a time when the consensus politics of Britain's postwar world had begun to unravel. Industrial relations, education and the health service faced fundamental challenges, the country was struggling with the end of empire, and the personal had become increasingly po...
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