
David Thewlis
Johnny
Lesley Sharp
Louise
Katrin Cartlidge
Sophie
Greg Cruttwell
Jeremy
Claire Skinner
Sandra
Peter Wight
Brian
Ewen Bremner
Archie
Susan Vidler
Maggie
Deborah Maclaren
Woman in Window
Gina McKee
Cafe Girl
Elizabeth Berrington
Giselle
Darren Tunstall
Poster Man
Robert Putt
Chauffeur
Lynda Rooke
Victim
Angela Curran
Car Owner
Peter Whitman
Mr Halpern
Jo Abercrombie
Woman in Street
Elaine Britten
Girl in Porsche
David Foxxe
Tea Bar Owner
Mike Avenall
Man at Tea Bar
Toby Jones
Man at Tea Bar
Sandra Voe
Bag Lady





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- #rape
- #nihilism
- #sadism
- #narcissism
- #mental breakdown
- #alienation
- #sexual violence
- #loneliness
- #urban
- #drifter
- #cruelty
- #desolate
- #humiliation
- #stranger
- #character study
- #misogynist
- #voyeurism
- #existentialism
- #manchester
- #self hatred
- #bitter
Reviews

Yikes, but this is a depressingly bleak story. David Thewlis is a rather dissolute and violent Mancunian who arrives in London with nowhere to stay. "Johnny" makes his way to the home of his ex "Louise" (Lesley Sharp). They briefly hook up again, but he soon tires of what he can get on a plate and sets off back onto the streets for a series of encounters with the nocturnal types who inhabit the ci

**Unpleasant and uncomfortable, often highly appreciated by critics, it is understandably forgotten by the public.** Mike Leigh directs with skill and intelligence a film that is far from pleasing everyone and that doesn't mind being uncomfortable: it tells the story of a man who hides in an ex-girlfriend's house to avoid being prosecuted for rape, and which we will follow through various adven
Mike Leigh's 1993 film NAKED is a drama on sexual relations -- how men hurt women, how some women accept that hurt out of low self-esteem and a desire to be wanted or supported. It is distinguished by its remarkably lifelike characters. Most of the film was worked out in improvisations for several months before shooting began. Leigh wanted his actors to create elaborate back stories for their char












