![]() ![]() Harold gets caught up in a web of deceit and blackmail, and each time he tries to break free of the grasp of "Mum", she threatens to tell the Police that he has been abusing Joyce. "Mum" seems to think there is no harm in this, as long as Joyce doesn't take part in the physical activities. Stanley Beasley (Matthew Walker) unless she is also allowed share the bed with Harold and "Mum". ![]() Her thirteen-year old daughter Joyce (Laura Sadler) is aware of what is happening and threatens to tell Mr. Marjorie Beasley (Dame Julie Walters) falls for him and eventually ends up in his bed. ![]() Harold Guppy (Rupert Graves) moves into the Beasley household as a lodger. Your chance to get this rare original poster, for the films US cinema release in 1996. Having been trading in vintage items for 2 decades we know this is the most important part of selling, nearly as important is getting a bargain, if you feel any item is over priced please do make us an offer and we'll do our best to accept it! We want to sell not hoard! ENJOY LOOKING AT OUR WONDERFUL ORIGINAL MOVIE MEMORABILIA PRODUCT & CONDITION: Poster stored flat and rolled to ship, some minimal damage to the poster or edges considering its age, colours remain bright and vibrant. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE: We know the most important part of selling is ensuring the customer is happy, we will do everything we can to make this a efficient purchase but if there are any problems, be assured we will resolve all issues. Item: 143921385482 INTIMATE RELATIONS US ONE SHEET ROLLED POSTER JULIE WALTERS 1996. Location: Eastergate, United Kingdom, PO203SJ, GB, Grim work, indeed, but powerful nonetheless.Seller: rendezvous_cinema ✉️ (1,949) 99.6%, Taken as a comedy or nightmare (and in the end it's a nightmare, surely), it's still a powerful piece of work. Goodhew's taboo-juggling is a minor miracle, as are the performances by Walters, Graves, and Sadler (who evokes the coquettish pout and leer of an earlier, less debauched Lolita). As one exiting audience member mentioned, “It's funny like Spanking the Monkey was” - jokes in the most skillful of hands. Do you laugh at this disintegrating family unit, cry, shriek, or what? It's a rhetorical question, really you get out of it what you take in, and while some audience members may be fully shocked at what ultimately transpires, others may find it all uproarious. It works because it never quite oversteps these self-imposed boundaries. Vaguely reminiscent of some of David Lynch's more surreal works, Intimate Relations never quite steps full into the twilight zone of rampant imagination, though with its hyperreal colorings and retro-camp sets, the film stumbles perilously close. Good old-fashioned English propriety gone off the deep end is what Goodhew is skewering here and he does it all with an accomplished, rapier wit. From here it grows, overtaking Joyce, Harold, and Marjorie until the lines between romance, lust, and madness blur in a violent, violet haze, and old Stanley totters drunkenly on the landing, oblivious to it all. Beasley also lets it be known that her home life lacks certain epicurian facets that she hungers for, and before you can say obsessive/compulsive, the good Mum has flung herself into the sack with the dodgy lodger. Joyce isn't the only one, however, who finds the bewildered Guppy attractive. The couple's young daughter Joyce (Sadler), a not-quite-yet sexually active nymphet, soon takes a liking to Guppy, a sad young man who is apparently the victim of a bizarre and unhappy childhood. While she attends to the daily chores of cleaning the dust from the banister, doing the laundry, and so on, her handicapped veteran husband Stanley putters down to the local pub and crawls inside a lager keg. Intimate Relations is a dark, depressingly off-kilter black comedy based on “a true story.” In a small village outside of London in 1954, lodger Harold Guppy (Graves) has come to live in the Beasley household, a strict, prim, and altogether proper family unit lorded over by the dour and utterly practical Marjorie Beasley (Walters). ![]()
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