prick up your ears

Director: stephen frears

Actor: gary oldman,alfred molina,vanessa redgrave,wallace shawn

Data Published: Fri May 01 1987

Genres: Biography,Drama

Key Words: homosexual,murder,london england,true life character,gay relationship

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093776/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prick_Up_Your_Ears

Description: Prick Up Your Ears is a movie starring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, and Vanessa Redgrave. 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...

Plot: The film tells the story of Orton and Halliwell in flashback, framed by sequences of Lahr researching the book upon which the film is based with Orton's literary agent, Peggy Ramsay. Orton and Halliwell's relationship is traced from its beginnings at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Orton starts out as the uneducated youth to Halliwell's older faux-sophisticate. As the relationship progresses, however, Orton grows increasingly confident in his talent while Halliwell's writing stagnates. They fall into a parody of a traditional married couple, with Orton as the "husband" and Halliwell as the long-suffering and increasingly ignored "wife" (a situation exacerbated at a time when being a sexually active homosexual was illegal). Orton is commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles, and Halliwell gets carried away in preparing for a meeting with the "Fab Four", but in the end, Orton is taken away for a meeting on his own. Finally, in August 1967, a despondent Halliwell kills Orton and commits suicide.