Comedy

A Private Function

Handmade Films

United Kingdom

English

Michael Palin

Maggie Smith

Denholm Elliott

Richard Griffiths

Tony Haygarth

John Normington

Bill Paterson

Liz Smith

Alison Steadman

Jim Carter

Pete Postlethwaite

Eileen O'Brien

Rachel Davies

Reece Dinsdale

Philip Wileman

Charles McKeown

Susan Porrett

Donald Eccles

Denys Hawthorne

Don Estelle

Eli Woods

Amanda Gregan

Paula Tilbrook

Bernard Wrigley

Lee Daley

Gilly Coman

Maggie Ollerenshaw

Josie Lane

David Morgan

Jill Goldston

Tony Jackson

Alan Bennett

Malcolm Mowbray

Tony Pierce-Roberts

Michelle Guish

Malcolm MacIntosh

Michael Porter

Jan Archibald

Elizabeth Moss

Mark Shivas

Judith Lang

Phyllis Dalton

Joan Hills

Stuart Walker

Micky Woolaard

David Farrell

Anita Pickles

Barrie Vince

Debbie McWilliams

Billy Bell

Ray Cooper

Stephen Janisz

Clive Barrett

Richard Morrison

Tamara Ingram

Liz Ferwell

Frank Berlin

Ginny Roncoroni

Nick Godden

Janet Tebrooke

Ken Crouch

Alan Bailey

George Harrison

Tom Hughes

Ann Wingate

Wendy Tayler

Mark White

Peter Arnold

Michael Redfern

John Du Prez

Alison Thorne

Brian Brockwell

Quico Rovira-Beleta

Peter James

Denis O'Brien

Rosie Straker

Robert Gavin

Christine Beveridge

Joanna Gollins

Derek Suter

Trevor Dyer

Larry Knox

John Cantwell

Nigel Galt

Jeffrey Witts

Joe Felix

Guy Travers

Scott Thomas

Jack Carter

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The forthcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip is a cause for celebration in post war Britain, but it isn’t going to affect rationing that still only allows one person one rasher of bacon per week. The folks of a small Yorkshire town have their own cunning plan. Secreted in the middle of the woods, they have a pig. Despite the best efforts of the ferret-like detective “Wormold” (Bill Paterson), they are fattening it up with whatever they can find - including some ingredients that we’d sooner not have known about, ready for the big day. Unbeknownst to them, though, local chiropodist “Chilvers” (Michael Palin) gets wind of this and decides that seeing as most of the town’s grandees don’t like him very much, he is going to appropriate said beast for his wife (Maggie Smith) and her mother (Liz Smith). As you might expect from any partnership between Smith and Palin, one is a stronger, non-nonsense personality and the other maybe just a bit timid, so what chance the latter would ever know what to do with a live pig roaming around - however hungry they might be? Writer Alan Bennett would have lived through this national event and so we can assume some youthfully inspired and informed commentary as this story plays out and he peppers it with his usual brand of Northern (English) wit. Richard Griffiths and Denholm Elliott both add characterful richness to the proceedings as the daft plot successfully and entertainingly exaggerates the snobbishness of a community where nobody really has very much, but where status is still king and two turkeys isn’t going to feed the whole village!

A Private Function 1984 Trailer | Michael Palin | Maggie Smith

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