Prick Up Your Ears

"Wickedly funny" TODAY "One of the most remarkable films of the decade" SUNDAY TIMES "Oldman's performance is dazzling" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "First rate" FILM 87 "A Cinema Masterpiece of 1987" DAILY TELEGRAPH Gary Oldman, who plays Joe Orton, gives an even more convincing performance than his role "Sd & Nancy", supported by Alfred Molina. "Raiders of the Lost Ark". "Letter to Brehznev" . Vannessa Redgrave and Julie Walters, this film was an enormous box-office success. Humourous, witty, scandalous and sad. Prick Up Your Ears tells the story of Jor Orton.One of Britain's most charismatic and irreverent playwrights. His unique humour and style catapulted him from penniless student to peer of the Beatles and writer of some of the most entertaining plays of the swinging sixties. Together with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, he mocked tradition and lived his life ignoring the rules of the estabishment. His ability brought him fame and recogntion, but his life was destined to end as suddenly as his success had begun. © Zenith Productions Ltd.