Another Country
Summary:
A pair of British lads, one gay and one socialist, chafe at the restrictions of boarding school life in this period piece, which was adapted from Julian Mitchell's novel and play of the same name and loosely based on the Burgess-Maclean spy scandal of the 1950s. In the 1930s, upper-class scions Tommy Judd (Colin Firth) and Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) are both nearin... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Rupert Everett - (Guy Bennett)
Colin Firth - (Tommy Judd)
Michael Jenn - (Barclay)
Frederick Alexander - (Jim Menzies)
Robert Addie - (Delahay)
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Review:
Although the protagonist of this measured, elegiac coming-of-age story is loosely based on Guy Burgess, an Englishman who spied for the Soviets and defected in the '50s, the events of the film are almost wholly fabricated. They're also deeply moving -- an alternately brutal and tender examination of class, status, disillusionment, and longing... Continue >>
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