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As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
The Ploughman's Lunch is a 1983 British drama film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre, starring Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris. The film examines the mass media in Margaret Thatcher 's Britain around the time of the Falklands War.
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Cinema publicity poster for the film 'The Ploughman's Lunch', 1983, directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Jonathan Pryce and William Maxwell.
The Ploughman's Lunch. James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.
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- Drama
- Richard Eyre
- 1983-05
The Ploughman's Lunch is ostensibly about the blank and morally bankrupt social climber and BBC journalist and author James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) an empty shell of a man happy to ignore his dying mother and proud father in their working class home as he…
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As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
