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The Ploughman's Lunch Ian McEwan's sharply-observed 80s drama starring Jonathan Pryce. An ambitious & manipulative journalist who is researching a book on Suez gets caught up in the Falklands crisis. 1983
Funded in part by Channel Four and released in 1983, The Ploughman's Lunch (d. Richard Eyre) is an 'issues' film, commenting on the state of affairs in Britain in the early 1980s.
Sep 4, 2021 · The Ploughman’s Lunch was a cause celebre at the time, and popping up on Film 4’s player in the UK provides a chance to see why. Breaking what was then an established three year window between cinema screenings and television premieres, The Ploughman’s Lunch appeared on Channel 4 months after a successful cinema release and much critical praise.
Other articles where The Ploughman’s Lunch is discussed: Ian McEwan: …including The Imitation Game (1980), The Ploughman’s Lunch (1983), Last Day of Summer (1984), and The Good Son (1993). Several of his screenplays were adapted from his novels and short stories. In addition, McEwan wrote librettos for a pacifist oratorio, Or Shall We Die? (first performed 1982; published and recorded…
Oct 19, 1984 · ''The Ploughman's Lunch,'' the first theatrical film to be written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre, is a witty, bitter tale of duplicity and opportunism in both private and public life.
Reporter James Penfield makes his money rearranging the facts, a talent he ruthlessly exploits in his friendships and love affairs. A political drama, set ag...
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The Ploughman’s Lunch is an ambitious film, it is just that it fails in its ambitions and therefore seems middle brow. At its centre is a young journalist, James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce).
