Socially commentative and allegorical, WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU is also a scalding comedy of manners and a strangely compelling love story. Set in the 1950s, this adaptation of Joseph R. Ackerly's novel stars Alan Bates as Frank Meadows, a well-to-do, middle-aged civil servant who is in
love with the young, working-class, married Johnny Burney (Gary Oldman). After Johnny is imprisoned for breaking and entering, Frank develops an obsessive attachment to his former lover's pet Alsatian, Evie. Just as Frank's love for Evie is a perversion of his natural feeling for Johnny, so this
story is a transposition of the love that dare not speak its name, in the 1950s or toda...
Released:
1988
Rated:
PG
Length:
94 mins