A comedy with a point, PLAYING AWAY uses a cricket match to explore the cultural conflicts that have arisen in increasingly multiracial Britain. Snedington, a provincial English village, hopes to top off its "Third World Week" with a
friendly cricket match against a West Indian team from
south London, the Brixton Conquerors. Derek (Nicholas Farrel), the snobby captain of the Snedington side, makes the arrangements with the Conquerors' captain, Willie-Boy (poignantly played by Norman Beaton), whose wife has returned to Jamaica and who has grown distant from his Anglicized daughter.
The first third of the film cuts back and forth between both communities as th...
Released:
1986
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins