Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
John Hurt
Giles De'Ath
Jason Priestley
Ronnie Bostock
Fiona Loewi
Audrey
Sheila Hancock
Mrs. Barker
Harvey Atkin
Lou
Maury Chaykin
Irving Buckmuller
Gawn Grainger
Henry
Elizabeth Quinn
Mrs. Reed
Linda Busby
Mrs. Abbott
Bill Leadbitter
Eldridge
Director
Richard Kwietniowski
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
BBC, Arts Council of England, British Screen Productions, Skyline Films, Imagex, Téléfilm Canada, Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Mikado Film, The Sales Company, Alfalfa Entertainment, BBC Film
CinemaSerf
September 7, 2025
“Giles De’Ath” (John Hurt) is a rather reclusive writer who has largely shunned publicity until he goes to the cinema and inadvertently finds himself watching a piece of throwaway teen nonsense starring heartthrob “Ronnie” (Jason Priestly). For reasons that he can’t immediately explain this recently widowed gent finds himself enthralled by this young man and has soon bought himself a VCR (without ...
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