The Ploughman's Lunch
107 minutes,
UK (1983), 15
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(4 / 9 votes)
(4 / 9 votes)
Ian McEwan's first feature screenplay is a clinical analysis of media corruption in early 1980s England. Jonathan Pryce is the amoral journalist whose ambition knows no limits
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The Ploughman's Lunch: Never one to shy away from the unpalatable, writer Ian McEwan here casts a cold eye over personal and professional misconduct at the height of the Falklands conflict. Director Richard Eyre (Iris, Notes On A Scandal) brings to the production an appropriately frosty tone to create a bitter dissection of the English at war...
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