“This is the best sort of drama, fascinating us on the surface with color and humor and esoteric detail, and then revealing the truth underneath.”
Albert Finney stars as ‘Sir’: a once-renowned stage performer reduced to leading a shoddy troupe of aged actors and army rejects in performances of Shakespeare's greatest plays. As his anxiety, regret and age begin to get the better of him, only Norman (Tom Courtenay), a timid set dresser who is unfailingly devoted to Sir, can hold the show together as it threatens to collapse… A lost gem from British cinema’s early 80s resurgence, with Finney and Courtnenay both in award-winning form.
