Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20257/10
“Giles De’Ath” (John Hurt) is a rather reclusive writer who has largely shunned publicity until he goes to the cinema and inadvertently finds himself watching a piece of throwaway teen nonsense starring heartthrob “Ronnie” (Jason Priestly). For reasons that he can’t immediately explain this recently widowed gent finds himself enthralled by this young man and has soon bought himself a VCR (without knowing he needed a television too), then signed up at his local Blockbuster to rent just about every bit of pulp this lad has graced. Now entirely entranced, he travels to Long Island, takes a room in a motel and plans to ingratiate himself with his girlfriend “Audrey” (Fiona Loewi). His arrival proves well timed as the young superstar is having some doubts about what to do next. Seeing his chance, “De’Ath” begins to use his Britishness to espouse the virtues of Shakespeare and his abilities to entertain those in the bear pit to convince “Ronnie” that he, too, could become a Thespian. “Ronnie” begins to lap this all up but, gradually, “Audrey” begins to tire of his increasing interloping into their lives and with the author now somewhat besotted, what possible outcome can emerge? Hurt is
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Cast
- John HurtGiles De'Ath
- Jason PriestleyRonnie Bostock
- Fiona LoewiAudrey
- Sheila HancockMrs. Barker
- Harvey AtkinLou
- Maury ChaykinIrving Buckmuller
- Gawn GraingerHenry
- Elizabeth QuinnMrs. Reed
- Linda BusbyMrs. Abbott
- Bill LeadbitterEldridge
Crew
- Richard KwietniowskiDirector
- Richard KwietniowskiWriter
- Gilbert AdairNovel
- Oliver CurtisDirector of Photography
- Richard Grassby-LewisOriginal Music Composer
- Bob LockeOriginal Music Composer
- Tim NorfolkOriginal Music Composer
- Susan ShiptonEditor
- Christopher ZimmerProducer
- Steve Clark-HallProducer
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