Another Country

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Another Country

PG

1984

1h 30m

Drama

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In this film adaptation of the Julian Mitchell play, classmates and fellow outcasts Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth) find comfort in friendship during the 1930s, at an elite British public school where conformity is the norm. Openly gay Bennett must deal with bullying and homophobia, while Judd struggles to reconcile the expectations of the establishment with his own Marxist beliefs when he is given the opportunity to become head boy.

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Richard Rayner

Time Out

Where the original play was long and more meditative, making suspension of disbelief at least possible, here it just seems like nonsense.

Feb 9, 2006

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

A well-acted, literate but insufferably smug little movie that fictionalizes the life of Guy Burgess, who with Donald Maclean defected to Moscow in the early 1950's.

Jun 4, 2003

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

If you can get past the wacky premise—that the British public school system is the direct cause of (a) homosexuality and (b) communism—what remains is a dull, conventionally carpentered melodrama, a natural for miniseries expansion by PBS.

Jun 4, 2003

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Phil Nash

OUT FRONT Magazine (Denver)

The wit is sophisticated, dry, and underplayed.

May 8, 2023

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Mark Hiers

Our Own Community Press (Norfolk, VA)

Its beauty is not only in its lush English countryside photography and gently moving camera but also in the warmth and humanness of its characters.

May 3, 2023

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Eve Tushnet

Patheos

[The] moral would be trite if it didn't go unspoken; it becomes poignant because it's adamantly denied.

Sep 6, 2018

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Ken B

Absolutely breathtaking to watch two of my favorite British actors, Rupert Evert and Colin Firth, as well as Cary Elwes just at the beginning of their long careers. Firth is almost unrecognizable. And these matters weren't ancient history when the film came out, despite being set in the thirties. I'm well into my 70's now, so anyone who thinks these issues weren't still pertinent in America in the fifties and sixties need to think again. Wikipedia interestingly comments that many interiors were filmed at Althorp, seat of the Spencer family (think Princess Diana) and her brother Charles, 9th Earl Spencer, appears as an unspeaking extra in several scenes.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/01/23

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holistically, i'm not convinced if this movie works all that well but it's two leads are amazing in their roles and i can't deny how fun it is to watch.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Don't understand much

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Great performances by Everett and Firth,but other than that this was not very passionately made.It provides some food for thought but not as much as it should have had.Quite interesting but never succeeds in hooking you in.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Interesting film, but I think I would have rather seen the spy portion rather than his time at Eton. The actors were amazing, the story was not.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Playing like a mishmash of Kicking and Screaming and Maurice without the former's insufferable characters and the latter's glacial pace, Another Country is both consistently funny and legitimately sad, serving as an indictment of the systemic homophobia that permeated the English aristocracy of the 1930s as well as a lighthearted boarding school romance story (although it suffers from an easy narrative bookending device utilized by countless other films).

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Synopsis

In this film adaptation of the Julian Mitchell play, classmates and fellow outcasts Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth) find comfort in friendship during the 1930s, at an elite British public school where conformity is the norm. Openly gay Bennett must deal with bullying and homophobia, while Judd struggles to reconcile the expectations of the establishment with his own Marxist beliefs when he is given the opportunity to become head boy.

Director: Marek Kanievska
Producer: Alan Marshall
Screenwriter: Julian Mitchell
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 1, 2019
Runtime: 1h 30m

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