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.
- 6.3
- 1998
- Released
- 1h 33m
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. ReedLinda Busby
Mrs. AbbottBill Leadbitter
Eldridge
Anne Reid
Maureen
Danny Webb
Video AssistantAndrew Barrow
HarryDean Gatiss
RobRobert McKewley
Video Salesman
Tusse Silberg
Abigail's Mother
Rebecca Michael
AbigailJean Ainslie
Ticket Seller 1Nigel Makin
Ticket Seller 2Released
en
- #obsession
- #long island, new york
- #love
- #writer
- #infatuation
- #obsessive love
- #gay theme
Reviews
“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