Prick Up Your Ears / Movie
by Stephen Frears
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Actor: Alfred Molina, Frances Barber, Gary Oldman, Janet Dale, Vanessa RedgraveDirector: Stephen Frears
Cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton
Editor: Mick Audsley
Producer: Andrew Brown
Writer: Alan Bennett
Writer: John Lahr
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 111 minutes
Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM Home Entertainment
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
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Movie Review: DVD Pick Up Your Ears
Summary: 5 Stars
DVD arrived in goodly time and in great quality... the movie itself wasn't as good as I had remembered it, but the service was A-1.
Summary of Prick Up Your Ears / Movie
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 rendered by Molina helps establish motivations that the script lacks. It's always good to see Vanessa Redgrave (ideal as Orton's agent), and Julie Walters has a hysterically unrecognizable bit as Orton's exasperated mum. If the film is a bit aloof, it's also crisp and often acidly funny (Orton and Halliwell do jail time for writing luridly phony synopses in library books). Frears has done a memorable bit in bringing both a man and his time to life. --Steve WieckingArt House & International VHS Video
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