Another Country

1984
15
1h 30m

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7.0/10

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Colin Firth and Rupert Everett in Another Country (1984)

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

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Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

7.4K

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Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

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A Lovely Film

I saw this movie again the other day and am impressed at how well it has held up. Though it's a little hard to follow the arcane hierarchies of 1930s British public school life, that is precisely the point-- these people are suffocating in the meaningless rituals of their class. Rupert Everett and Colin Firth give outstanding performances as the openly gay and communist members of their school, and the unfolding of the relationship between Everett and Cary Elwes is some of the most romantic footage I've ever seen. Though very few of us live in such a stratified social climate these days, we would do well to understand the webs of hierarchy and ritual that bind us all in one way or another.

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Trivia
Loosely based on the early life of Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge Five spy ring of the 1930s and 1940s, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. Even the manner of "Guy Bennett"'s father's death, as he discloses it to Harcourt, is the same as Burgess's father. Even so, the closing credits make the standard declaration, "The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental."

Goofs
When the cadets are on parade in the school quadrangle, the statue of a man in seventeenth-century dress identifies their location as the courtyard of the Bodleian Library, on the campus of Oxford University.