Intimate Relations Movie Review 1995

Fifties family dsyfunction--British style. Harold Guppy (Graves) is an orphaned merchant marine who winds up in an English coastal town where he takes rooms with the seemingly respectable Beasleys. Stanley Beasley (Walker) is a quiet nonentity whose life is run by homemaker extraordinaire Marjorie (Walters), with 14-year-old daughter Joyce (Sadler) rounding out the family. The needy Harold fits in fine, especially to the sexually hungry Marjorie who's soon offering her boarder unexpected services. But young Joyce won't be left out and then there's a blackmailing tug of war between the threesome. Based on the true story of a crime of passion that shocked Great Britain.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 105 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Family Ties, Romantic Triangles, Period Piece: 1950s, Great Britain, Adoption & Orphans, Crimes of Passion, True Stories

Screenplay

Philip Goodhew

Cast

Julie Walters, Rupert Graves, Laura Sadler, Matthew (Matt) Walker, Holly Aird, Les Dennis, Liz McKechnie

Cinematography

Andres Garreton

Director

Philip Goodhew

Music

Lawrence Shragge

Producer

Jon Slan, Lisa Hope, Angela Hart, Gareth Jones, Handmade Films, Paragon, Boxer Films, 20th Century Fox Searchlight

Awards

Montreal World Film Fest. 1995: Actor (Graves).