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Prick Up Your Ears

film by Frears [1987]

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    • In Stephen Frears

      …continued to garner praise with Prick Up Your Ears (1987), a biographical movie about British playwright Joe Orton, and the American films Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Grifters (1990), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He subsequently directed the comedies The Snapper (1993) and

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        In Vanessa Redgrave: Movies of the 1980s and ’90s

        …literary agent in the film Prick Up Your Ears (1987), and for television, Lady Alice More in the remake of A Man for All Seasons (1988), Lady Torrance in Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending (1990), and Blanche Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991), a remake of the Bette…

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