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  1. Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 British film about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina. The film is based on a biography by John Lahr and explores Orton's life, work and death.

  2. Prick Up Your Ears: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn. Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators.

    • (6.6K)
    • Biography, Drama
    • Stephen Frears
    • 1987-05-08
  3. prick up your ears. idiom. Add to word list Add to word list. to listen carefully: The children pricked up their ears when they heard the word “ candy.”. (Definition of prick up your ears from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

  4. The life and tragic death of British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) is chronicled in this biographical film. When the young, attractive Orton meets the older, more...

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    • Stephen Frears
    • R
    • Gary Oldman
  5. www.itv.com › watch › prick-up-your-earsPrick Up Your Ears - ITVX

    Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina and Vanessa Redgrave chronicle the spectacular life of a daring and rebellious playwright, Joe Orton, in this...

  6. Prick Up Your Ears. Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina and Vanessa Redgrave chronicle the spectacular life of a daring and rebellious playwright, Joe Orton, in this multi-award-winning biopic. 216 IMDb 7.1 1 h 45 min 1987. X-Ray.

  7. “Prick Up Your Ears” is based on the biography that John Lahr wrote about Orton, a biography that has become famous for discovering a private life so different from the image seen by the public. Homosexuality was a crime in the 1960s in England, but Orton was heedless of the dangers.