Your chance to get this rare original poster, for the films US cinema release in 1996. Poster stored flat and rolled to ship, some minimal damage to the? poster or edges considering its age, colours remain bright and vibrant. Having been trading in vintage items for 2 decades we know this is the most important part of selling, nearly as important is getting a bargain, if you feel any item is over priced please do make us an offer and we'll do our best to accept it! We want to sell not hoard!ĮNJOY LOOKING AT OUR WONDERFUL ORIGINAL MOVIE MEMORABILIA This film is rated R.Ĭast: Julie Walters (Marjorie), Rupert Graves (Harold), Matthew Walker (Stanley) and Laura Sadler (Joyce).We know the most important part of selling is ensuring the customer is happy, we will do everything we can to make this a efficient purchase but if there are any problems, be assured we will resolve all issues. Written and directed by Philip Goodhew director of photography, Andres Garreton edited by Pia Di Ciaula music by Lawrence Shragge production designer, Caroline Greville-Morris produced by Angela Hart, Lisa Hope and Jon Slan releasedīy Fox Searchlight Pictures. It includes profanity and mostly discreet, comical sexual situations. Rating: "Intimate Relations" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). In retrospect, since the real man on whom Harold's character is based has spent much of his life in hospitals and jails, convicted of crimes including sexual assault on schoolgirls, this story looks like no laughing matter. Having satirically distanced himself from these absurd people, he cannot easily give much weight to their plight. No room for the pathos that these last scenes require. Sadler entertainingly sneaky as the teen-age daughter and Graves so wonderfully dim, "Intimate Relations" runs into trouble as it heads for mayhem. "It's my birthday!" The lovebirds have no choice, the film assumes, but to invite Joyce to climb in with them for a chaste night'sĪmusing as it often is, with Ms. "It's not fair!" Joyce wails, catching her mother in bed with the lodger. Emboldened by this, Marjorie creeps into Harold's bedroom in her flannel nightie and captures her prey, only to be interrupted by Joyce moments later. The bottle and Harold and Marjorie wind up doing the heartiest spinning. There is the evening, for instance, when Joyce's birthday party includes a game of spin In a film so drily acerbic that it can give a wicked spin to a line like "Lemon puff?," Goodhew winks at his characters' naivete. Marjorie works at a genteel cleaning establishment, which is nicely apt, since in figurative terms she has the dirtiest "Oh, Pamela, you silly, silly girl!" she exclaims in shock when a co-worker is fired for being pregnant. Hair curled so primly that it seems to be in rollers, with thick glasses and the frumpiest of clothes, Marjorie makes herself a goddess of dowdy domesticity and maintains a perfectly hypocritical demeanor with her neighbors. Marjorie, though played with warmth and humor by Ms. It's safe to assume that somebody winds up dead.ĭespite the fact that it tells an ultimately sad story, "Intimate Relations" concentrates on the kitschier aspects of its odd menage. That there's more to this story than illicit sex. Since Philip Goodhew's "Intimate Relations," a black comedy about this household, is billed as being "inspired by true events," it's safe to assume from the outset Less lonely in the simplest possible way. Sure enough, Harold is soon recruited to make Marjorie feel "My husband and I keep separate rooms for medical purposes," Marjorie explains to Harold, whose own problematic past has left him too wishy-washy to run for the door. He has apparently been getting on Marjorie's nerves ever since. She keeps these secrets from her inquisitive 13-year-old daughter, Joyce (Laura Sadler), and from her husband, Stanley (Matthew Walker), who lost his leg in World War I. Living her idea of a dainty existence in a provincial British town (the year is 1954), the 50-ish Marjorie still has some unladylike impulses. Hen a good-looking young lodger named Harold Guppy (Rupert Graves) is invited to move into the fussy little household of Marjorie Beasley (Julie Walters), he is made SeptemNot Just the Same Old Illicit Sex By JANET MASLIN
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