This article is about the film. For the episode of Family Guy, see Prick Up Your Ears (Family Guy). For the stage play, see Prick Up Your Ears (play).
1987 British film
Prick Up Your Ears
UK release poster
Directed by
Stephen Frears
Screenplay by
Alan Bennett
Based on
Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr
Produced by
Andrew Brown
Starring
Gary Oldman
Alfred Molina
Vanessa Redgrave
Cinematography
Oliver Stapleton
Music by
Stanley Myers
Production companies
Civilhand Zenith Entertainment
Distributed by
Curzon Film Distributors
Release date
17 April 1987 (1987-04-17)
Running time
111 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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.
^"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.
^"Prick Up Your Ears (1987)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
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