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Prick Up Your Ears
UK release poster
Directed byStephen Frears
Screenplay byAlan Bennett
Based onPrick Up Your Ears
by John Lahr
Produced byAndrew Brown
Starring
  • Gary Oldman
  • Alfred Molina
  • Vanessa Redgrave
CinematographyOliver Stapleton
Music byStanley Myers
Production
companies
Civilhand
Zenith Entertainment
Distributed byCurzon Film Distributors
Release date
  • 17 April 1987 (1987-04-17)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£1.9 million[1]
Box office$1.6 million[2]

Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the 1978 biography by John Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lahr, and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.

  1. ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 27.
  2. ^ "Prick Up Your Ears (1987)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 10 January 2014.

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