American director Randal Kleiser (GREASE, BIG TOP PEE-WEE) journeyed to England to film this gentle comedy adapted by Elizabeth Jane Howard from her own novel.
Jesse Birdsall stars as Gavin Lamb, a 31-year-old West End hairdresser who lives with his parents and is still a virgin, frightened of women. In the course of the film he becomes involved with, and is used and abused by, various members of the sex he fears: the neurotic, sexually profligate Lady
Minerva Munday (Helen Bonham Carter); the adulterous Joan (a priceless Lynn Redgrave) who breaks up the relationship between Gavin's gay best friend, Harry (Richard Huw), and Harry's lover, Winthrop (Kevin Drinkwa...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins