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| Gary Oldman as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears |
Prick up Your Ears
(1987)
Directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), Prick up Your Ears is about gay British playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, and based on the book by John Lahr. Halliwell murdered Orton, and the film pulls no punches in describing their dysfunctional relationship, Orton’s promiscuity, and the cost that denying his sexuality took on the playwright and on the couple.
The film is significant in particular for its frank depiction of anonymous sexual encounters in London ‘s public restrooms, something never before seen in a mainstream feature film.
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