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Another Country (1984) Rank 5 Reviews
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DVD Verdict (Diane Wild)
Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
The actors all turn in credible performances, and the claustrophic elitism of the school itself comes across more convincingly than in American pablum like Scent of a Woman. I am even ready to admit that Another Country may have ...read the complete Another Country movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
Time Out
In Julian Mitchell's adaptation of his own award-winning play (a naive and romanticised exploration of how ruling-class attitudes in the '30s were shaped), we are asked to believe that a brilliant young homosexual (modelled on Guy Burgess) turns ...read the complete Another Country movie review at Time Out
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by One-Line Film Rev... on July 23, 2009
The Bottom Line:
This stellar film adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play theorizes that the overwhelming snobbery, hypocrisy, and cold-blooded elitism that fueled British public schools directly led to "the Cambridge Five" betraying British secrets to ...
by PJ Franklin on May 07, 2009
This film has multiple levels of involvement for everyone. Following the playwright's original intent (via the DVD's special features), it's much more a commentary or observation on British life and society over the decades as anything else. It's ...
by David Thomson "Se... on September 03, 2007
A number of the British elites betrayed their country on behalf of the Communist utopian dream. They were the upper crust of the establishment---and above suspicion. Few ever considered the possibility that these scoundrels might possibly pose a ...
by Amos Lassen on December 25, 2006
ER COUNTRY"
Societal Evils
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
A play produced in Britain by Julian Mitchell about a young man named Guy Bennett who embraces his homosexuality at a time when it was criminal to do so became the 1984 movie, "Another Country" ...
by Kathleen on March 08, 2006
My favourite scene is when Guy Bennet tried to talk Tommy Judd into being one of those high-rank lads. Colin's Tommy was immersed in soft moonlight, leaning against the wall, looking sadly out of the window, telling Guy his disappointment and anger. The ...
by Lindsay Heffernan... on December 29, 2005
I absolutely adored this movie. The score is haunting and powerful, the young cast of now well known stars give wonderful performances and it is well written. It shows you not the protagnoist's actual steps to becoming a Russian spy (you know from the ...
by Ward Stewart "War... on August 30, 2005
This richly and handsomly photographed film cast light (some) on the mysterious business of Burgess and McLean and their entirely improbable defection from Britain.
Ward ...
by C. stacy Beam "St... on May 18, 2005
I have been a fan of this film for a long time and was glad to see it released on DVD.
This story is loosely based on the real life of a British aristocrat turned spy for Russia. Instead of detailing the main character's (Guy Bennett)adult ...
by FrKurt Messick "F... on May 18, 2005
Another Country, a film starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth (in their very early work), is set in the upper-class British society of the inter-war period. Its central idea is to demonstrate the difficulties of growing up even in the midst of ...
by Charles S. Houser on September 18, 2004
This film is a fictional version of the beginnings of a group of real-life British traitors. As such, it speculates on the psychological motives of one privileged, public school educated man (played brilliantly by Rupert Everett). As a homosexual who was ...
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