Prick Up your Ears

1987
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Prick Up your Ears
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Title: Prick Up your Ears

Original Title: Prick Up your Ears

Year: 1987

Info

  • Country: UK
  • Length: 105 Minutes (1 hour 45 min)
  • Budget: $1,654,743
  • Genre: Biography Drama Romance
  • Distributor: Park Circus
  • Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

  • UK: August 04 2017
  • United States: May 08 1987

Plot

'Prick up your ears' is based upon Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell's real life story. In the middle of the London sixties, the two men meet each other and develop an intense relationship. While Kenneth teaches Joe all he knows about literature and art, Joe shows him how to find sexual release. They will both end up in jail when their homosexuality is discovered, but Joe manages to bear his days in prison and writes a theatre play that will open for him the gates of the most important London stages. He will become the author of 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' or 'Loot', and even the Beatles will ask him to write a play for them. However, Halliwell will find it hard to accept that he is the only one who didn't manage to be successful.

Awards

  • 1988 BAFTA Awards: 1 0

Cast

Director:

Stephen FrearsStephen Frears

Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman

Joe Orton

Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina

Kenneth Halliwell

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Peggy Ramsay

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

John Lahr

Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Anthea Lahr

Frances Barber

Frances Barber

Leonie Orton

Trivia

Regretful

Ian McKellen turned down an offer to play Kenneth Halliwell, a role that went to Alfred Molina. McKellen has said that he lived to regret that decision.

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