An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.
The movie was selected to be the 38th Royal Film Performance and screening at London's Odeon Theatre on 19th March 1984.
Norman:
I had a friend...
Sir:
Oh by Christ's sake! I'm sick of your friends. A motley crew they are: pathetic, lonely, despairing!
Norman:
That's nice, isn't it?
Sir:
I beg your pardon. Uncalled for! Count myself as your friend!
Norman:
Never despairing!
Sir:
I have apologized!
Norman:
Never, ...
After Sir and Norman leave the marketplace, they're passed by a Routemaster bus. These buses were first used in London in 1954, and weren't used outside London until the 1970's.
English
$43,132 (USA) (11 December 1983)
$5,310,748 (USA)