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The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the screen by playwright Harold Pinter, and which features an astonishing performance by Alan Bates. The story focuses on one very bad day in the life of Butley (Bates), a feisty, sharp-tongued, lazy and pathetic professor of English. His professional ascendancy is challenged by a
Jan 1, 1974 Wide
Apr 1, 2003
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In the beginning, there is the cough, as English professor Ben Butley(Alan Bates) has trouble waking up in the morning and cuts himself shaving. He barely makes the tube train, somehow finding a seat where he can smoke and read, which takes him to his university office which he shares with Joey Keyston(Richard
April 5, 2011Super Reviewer
The makers want us to feel sorry for the main character, an English professor with severe abandonment issues, but it's hard to sympathize when the story follows such a predictable trajectory of the protagonist bitching about his life to patient listeners and then having those listeners tell him off in the second act.
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