Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears1987

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Lindsay Duncan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 111 minutes

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 Old… more »



Peggy Ramsay:
Ken was the first wife. He did all the work and the waiting and then...

John Lahr:
Well, first wives don't usually beat their husbands' heads in.

Peggy Ramsay:
No. Though why I can't think.

John Lahr:
So what does that make you? The second wife?

Peggy Ramsay:
Better than that, dear. The widow.

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