Ploughman's Lunch
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Jonathon Price, Tim Curry Brand: Trinity DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Color, Digital Sound, DVD, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 107 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Model: T-1323 Studio: Trinity Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Ploughman's Lunch
Movie Review: Inside look at a circumscribed world of British journalism
Summary: 4 Stars
Set during the time of the Faulkland (Malvinas) Island war, our protagonist is an opportunistic journalist played with the appropriate cynicism-- by Jonathan Pryce--whose demeanor seems set with an expression that synthesizes concern, irony, jadedness, and disgust. He maneuvers among the intellectual set of Britian--insinuating himself into the right circles to enhance is career as he bursts out in laughter at a friend's poetry reading, shows utter disdain toward a group of 'peaceniks" and impatiently checks his watch at his mother's funeral since he has more important things to attend to. A rather interesting portrait of intellectual hypocrisy and double-dealings among those whom many intellectuals admire because they do not see beneath the veneer of concern and the search for truth that hides the motivation that is at the heart self-promotion for many in the literati set.