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Prick Up Your Ears

Directed by Stephen Frears
R
1987    1h 51mDrama, Biography
7.192%79%6.6
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Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

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Cast of Prick Up Your Ears

  • Gary OldmanJoe Orton
  • Alfred MolinaKenneth Halliwell
  • Vanessa RedgravePeggy Ramsay
  • Wallace ShawnJohn Lahr
  • Lindsay DuncanAnthea Lahr
  • Julie WaltersElsie Orton
  • James GrantWilliam Orton
  • Frances BarberLeonie Orton
  • Janet DaleMrs Sugden
  • Dave AtkinsMr Sugden
  • Margaret TyzackMadame Lambert
  • Eric RichardEducation Officer
  • William JobRADA Chairman
  • Rosalind KnightRADA Judge
  • Angus MacKayRADA Judge
  • Linda SpurrierRADA Instructor
  • Charlotte WodehouseJanet
  • Helena MichellOrton's Friend
  • Sean PertweeOrton's Friend
  • Liam De StaicBrickie

Prick Up Your Ears Ratings & Reviews

  • Charles LondonMarch 25, 2025
    Let's see, a true story - with salacious sex, insane jealousy, and a psychotic murder/suicide - about a 1960's pop-culture playwright/novelist/screenwriter with connections to The Beatles. Sounds good and is good. Be assured though, despite the dark-sounding nature of the plot, there is plenty of humor throughout the film. Superstar actors, Vanessa Redgrave and Gary Oldman, give excellent performances but it's much-less-known Alfred Molina that steals the show as Joe Orton's under-appreciated, over-abused, and emotionally-ill friend/lover/collaborator.

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