A PRIVATE FUNCTION (1984)

MALCOLM MOWBRAY

Comedy Luke's Lushes BAFTA Winners Drama 1940s Recommended

Cast

MICHAEL PALIN MAGGIE SMITH DENHOLM ELLIOTT LIZ SMITH ALAN BENNETT

Plot

Winner of three British Academy Awards. A satire on post-war Britain as food-rationing gives way to a new materialism. Michael Palin steals a pig destined for the table of the town's top folk. The screenplay is by Alan Bennet and the whole reminiscent of the best of Ealing farce.