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When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to caustic literary biographies about volatile relationships, creative rivalry, and intimacy curdling into possession.
- Tone
- melancholic, darkly comic, tense
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- sexuality, creative ambition, class tension, jealousy, artistic partnership
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, London theatrical and literary circles
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