Post by pauliepoos on Nov 29, 2007 10:22:44 GMT
I've worked out how to convert VHS to DVD so have been going through my collection and came across this long underrated gem, which was an early 90s Film Four production.
In a plot not too different to Far From Heaven, Jane plays the surburban housewive who finds out her husband like a bit of cock. But instead of not running off with a black man, she becomes friends with her husband's same sex lover, and starts looking after a friend of his who is dying of AIDS. Dying friend looks like an emaciated Antony Cotton.
In a supporting role is the underrated Judy Flynn, who played Madge in House of Elliot, and Julie in The Brittas Empire. She looks like Antony Cotton in a Sally Webster wig and works in a garden centre.
Also in it is the deputy head from Waterloo Road, who plays Jane's son, and Kris Marshall pops up as a school boy doing things with a safe sex poster.
It is actually rather moving and well acted, you get to see Jane's tits in the first minute and the scene where she visits the sex shop is fantastic - the look of contempt she gives the shelf of butt plugs has to be seen to be believed, as does the acting of sex shop retail advisor.
In a plot not too different to Far From Heaven, Jane plays the surburban housewive who finds out her husband like a bit of cock. But instead of not running off with a black man, she becomes friends with her husband's same sex lover, and starts looking after a friend of his who is dying of AIDS. Dying friend looks like an emaciated Antony Cotton.
In a supporting role is the underrated Judy Flynn, who played Madge in House of Elliot, and Julie in The Brittas Empire. She looks like Antony Cotton in a Sally Webster wig and works in a garden centre.
Also in it is the deputy head from Waterloo Road, who plays Jane's son, and Kris Marshall pops up as a school boy doing things with a safe sex poster.
It is actually rather moving and well acted, you get to see Jane's tits in the first minute and the scene where she visits the sex shop is fantastic - the look of contempt she gives the shelf of butt plugs has to be seen to be believed, as does the acting of sex shop retail advisor.
