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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: OLDMAN,GARY
EAN: 9780792860778
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860772
Item Dimensions: 24
Label: MGM Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: MGM Home Entertainment
MPN: D1006504D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: May 08, 1987
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Tells the story of the life and death of British playwright, Joe Orton.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 15-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
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 Wiecking
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Rating:  -
There is an awful lot going for this film, but sadly, the way it is presented takes it down a notch or two for me. I just found the construction of this film to be somewhat of a mess, and while I wanted it to engage me, and at times it is, it failed to really rally me in the way I wanted it to. It is an effective piece that kind of falls short of truly grasping all that it could have been, beings that it carries with it some weighty subjects.
The life of playwright Joe Orton is an ... Read More
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A next movie of a grey boring existence in London of the Beatles is of a jealous talent killing his partner of a more attractive appearance and successful writer's fate.
May be watched, may not to.
Rating:  -
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.
Rating: -
"PRICK UP YOUR EARS"
What a Way to Go
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
"Prick Up Your Ears" is a gem of a movie. It tells the true story of English playwright Joe Orton and his homosexual relationship with his talented but not so successful partner, Kenneth Halliwell. It is a solid drama and most amazing is that it is twenty years old.
Joe Orton was a daring and rebellious writer. Told through flashbacks, Orton's literary agent, played wonderful ... Read More
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I've been a huge fan of both Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina for years and I think they are both outstanding in this biography of the late British playwright Joe Orton.
Although most people think of Oldman from films like AIR FORCE ONE or the Harry Potter films and Molina from SPIDER-MAN 2, they are both some of the most dependable and most talented actors in films today.
PRICK UP YOUR EARS would be worth seeing for either one of these actors, but both of them make this an excellent ... Read More
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