Absolute Hell
- Director: Anthony Page
- Writer: Rodney Ackland
- Producer: Simon Curtis; Glyn Edwards
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...and it was.
Excruciatingly so.
Adapted from Ackerland's badly received play - The Pink Room - with newly added/adapted gay character...
Absolute Hell lives up to its name.
The acting is an abomination of ham and camp, the story lurches from one subplot to the next without any logic.
Although centred around a dithering Nighy and an over-the-top Dench - it fails to engage or entertain...the calibre of acting and directing would have been more acceptable in the days of early television - not in the 90s.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens.
Cast & Characters
Judi Dench as Christine Foskett;
Francesca Annis as Elizabeth Collier;
Sylvia Barter as Julia Shillitoe;
Paul Birchard as Butch;
Susan Brown as Bill;
Anthony Calf as Douglas Eden;
Gary Fairhall as Club Member;
Gregory Floy as Michael Crowley;
Moyra Fraser as Lettice Willis;
Sheelagh Fraser as Madge