Description: MAGGIE SMITH MICHAEL PALIN DENHOLM ELLIOT RICHARD GRIFFITHS and PETE POSTLETHWAITE star in A PRIVATE FUNCTION The Comedy Crackling Of The Year!Post War Pork PowerWinner of 3 British Academy Awards VHS - PAL - Ex-Rental - Professionally Cleaned - M-rated - Colour - 1984-release - 89-minutes - Original VHS release in Australia - Large box In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife Joyce, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold. A near classic; like something Ealing might have done if, perhaps, raunchier though not necessarily darker. Set at the time of the present Queen Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Phillip, it's about the petty jealousies of the ostensible middle-classes of Northern ration-book Britain.Michael Palin is Gilbert, a mild-mannered chiropodist, looked down upon, in all senses, by the local community who finds his trump card and way into society in the form of a pig that is being fattened for the private function of the title, a dinner for local dignitaries in celebration of the royal wedding. Maggie Smith is his genteel wife who turns into Lady MacBeth in pursuit of her dreams of fitting in and that great character actress Liz Smith is her slightly dotty mother. Scriptwriter Alan Bennet's depiction of the milieu of false noblesse oblige is as sharp as ever and the entire cast rise to the occasion.
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Location: Kingsgrove, New South Wales
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Director: Malcolm Mowbray
Former Rental: Yes
Movie/TV Title: A Private Function
Rating: M
Special Features: Cult, Deleted Title
Genre: Comedy
Leading Role: Maggie Smith
Signal Standard: PAL
Sub-Genre: Dark Humor
