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Look Back in Anger

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Look Back in Anger
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1hr 39min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1958
Director:
Tony Richardson
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure  ...more
Synopsis: Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) alternates between hugs and kisses when he's feeling good and verbal abuse when he's down on himself, which is often. Alison's best friend Helena Charles (Claire Bloom) advises Alison to escape her injurious marriage. Left with no one for a punching bag, Jimmy romances Helena. Having ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Three years after its incendiary run on the London stage, director Tony Richardson's film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1959) became one of the precursors to the British "kitchen sink" dramas of the 1960s. Enhancing the aim to show British life as it really was through the hopeless existence of enraged working class stiff Jimmy Porter and his put-upon, better-born wife Allison, ... Full Review
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Richard Burton
Jimmy Porter
Claire Bloom
Helena Charles
Mary Ure
Alison Porter
Edith Evans
Mrs. Tanner
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