Summary:
This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as +Loot and +What the Butler Saw is evenly balanced by the bleakness of... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Gary Oldman - (Joe Orton)
Alfred Molina - (Kenneth Halliwell)
Vanessa Redgrave - (Peggy Ramsay)
Wallace Shawn - (John Lahr)
Julie Walters - (Elsie Orton)
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Review:
A playwright whose career was as brilliant as it was brief, Joe Orton made his name with plays whose anarchic quality mirrored the tumult of his own life. Brash, unapologetically homosexual, and possessing unbridled cheek, Orton was a vibrant personality, merrily jeering in the face of proper society until he died suddenly and violently, blud... Continue >>

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