Look Back in Anger (1980 film)


Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.

Plot

Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter, and her snooty best friend Helena Charles. Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

Cast

Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with Malcolm McDowell on if.... and O Lucky Man!, translated Ted Craig's Roundabout Theatre Company production to the screen, and taped results in three days.