Way Upstream

TV Movie
1987
15
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Two couples who go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.Two couples who go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.Two couples who go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.

Director
- Terry Johnson
Writers
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Terry Johnson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

197

YOUR RATING

Director
- Terry Johnson
Writers
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Terry Johnson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

User reviews11

Featured review

Like 'Deliverance' on the canals, but funnier

I saw this a couple of times back in the late 1980s and would love to see it again. Very funny, at times darkly so. Surreal. A sort of 'Deliverance' on the UK canals?

Odd situations... strange plot twists. The actor who plays the madman is quite convincing, but it's well acted all round.

Originally shown on the BBC (maybe it was a 'Play For Today', I can't remember). And that is about all I can type about this one from memory, so bear with me while I try to fill up IMDb's ten line minimum review requirement.

There we go. Recommended. BBC please re-transmit this one!

johnrowb
Sep 20, 2010
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Trivia
Based on the 1981 play by Alan Ayckbourn, Way Upstream is a 1987 TV movie starring Stuart Wilson, Barrie Rutter, Marion Bailey, Nick Dunning, and Joanne Pearce. After being broadcast on BBC One on January 1st 1988 at 10 o'clock at night, this classic film for some unknown reason, has never again been aired in the UK.