A lack of a plot makes WHO'S WHO one of filmmaker Mike Leigh's weakest efforts. In satirizing the upper-class yuppies who work at a London stock brokerage, he seems to be out of his element, while his portrait of a middle-class toady seems uncomfortably exaggerated.
Nigel (Simon Chandler) and Giles (Adam Norton), two young upper-class Brits who share an apartment, plan a dinner party for a few friends. Both are employed at the brokerage firm of MacEwan van Oss. Co-worker Kevin (Philip Davis), who is of their same age, shares a desk with Alan (Richard Kane), a
middle-aged man who fawns over his social "superiors." At home, Alan dotes on his collection of celebrit...
Released:
1978
Rated:
NR
Length:
76 mins