20th ANNIVERSARY REISSUE DIGITALLY RESTORED AND REMASTERED NEW 35MM & DIGITAL PRINTS FROM 6 APRIL
Twenty years on, Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears is making a welcome return to the big screen, from 6 April, in a newly restored and remastered version.
The film is a celebration, even in tragedy, of outrageous British playwright Joe Orton's irreverent and charismatic talent, starring Gary Oldman as Orton and Alfred Molina as his lover, Kenneth Halliwell.
It is the controversial story of one of the young turks of the 1960s - from working class boy to national celebrity, from sexual innocent to grinning satyr, from penniless student to peer of the Beatles and icon of London's swinging sixties. Orton made his success by mocking the rules of the establishment and lived his life ignoring them. But it is also the story of an unconventional ‘marriage' founded in love, lived as a farce and concluded in fateful and all-consuming jealousy.
2007 also marks the 40th anniversary of Orton's death.
