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Look Back in Anger (1980 film)

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Story by
  
John Osborne

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Producer
  
Don Boyd

Writer
  
John Osborne (play)

Look Back in Anger (1980 film) movie poster
Director
  
Lindsay Anderson David Hugh Jones

Release date
  
1980

Directors
  
Lindsay Anderson, David Jones

Cast
  
Malcolm McDowell
(Jimmy Porter),
Lisa Baines
(Alison Porter),
Fran Brill
(Helena Charles)

Similar movies
  
Related Lindsay Anderson movies

Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.

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Plot

Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

Cast

  • Malcolm McDowell - Jimmy Porter
  • Lisa Banes - Alison Porter
  • Fran Brill - Helena Charles
  • Raymond Hardie - Cliff Lewis
  • Robert Burr - Colonel Redfern
  • Background/Production

    Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with Malcolm McDowell on if.... and O Lucky Man!, translated Ted Craig's Roundabout Theatre Company production (in which McDowell was starring) to the screen, and taped results in three days.

    References

    Look Back in Anger (1980 film) Wikipedia
    Look Back in Anger (1980 film) IMDb