A day in the life of Ben Butley. But definitely not a day to remember for this T.S. Eliot scholar at the University of London. Let's take for example Anne, his already estranged wife: today is the day she has chosen to tell him she is leaving him for good, and for a man Butley despises, and what about Joey Kingston, whose close friendship Ben is losing, maybe forever today? Decidedly, all the odds are against him. Will Butley, the bitter misanthropist, the unrepentant alcohol... (Full plot summary below)
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A day in the life of Ben Butley. But definitely not a day to remember for this T.S. Eliot scholar at the University of London. Let's take for example Anne, his already estranged wife: today is the day she has chosen to tell him she is leaving him for good, and for a man Butley despises, and what about Joey Kingston, whose close friendship Ben is losing, maybe forever today? Decidedly, all the odds are against him. Will Butley, the bitter misanthropist, the unrepentant alcoholic, the teacher who bullies his students, his friends, and his colleagues, in other words, the self-destructive nihilist, survive this horrible day?
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWe don't pity [Butley], even though we should. He somehow doggedly weathers each crisis, and we even feel a sneaky affection for him. Maybe that's the way the role is written, or maybe it's because of the double-reverse charm Bates brings to it. |
| User ReviewAshley MAlan Bates is BRILLIANT! Perhaps the wriest and wittiest film I've ever seen. |
| User ReviewPrivate Uthis movie is about a gay profeser who is hella witty and british. he's all liek 'wots all this then' |
| User ReviewRalph RWhen wit and character still counted, and actors still possessed the depth to pull it off. An amazing project, the American Film Theater, imagine seeking investors among regular folks to bring theater works into a shitty new medium. A shame more weren't created. |
| User ReviewSantiago MGreat acting at its best again the Americans try to dupicate things its now a play on Broadway is there any originality left in America? |
| User ReviewLee MAlan Bates' stage triumph in Simon Gray's Butley has been superbly recreated on the screen, with the added excellence of Harold Pinter's topnotch film directorial debut. |
| User ReviewRachel AWhat the hell was this? Overacted, that's what! The late, great Alan Bates gets really bizarre in this. |
| User ReviewC.J. AThe 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. It's a solid one-room drama, albeit one that never quite surprises or enlightens. |
| User ReviewEric ALook up on Imdb for this film. I did not like it too much :( |
| User ReviewMichael MHowever realistic, Alan Bates' one-man one-room show as snide academic doesn't make a movie. |
