Intimate Relations (1996 film)
Intimate Relations is a 1996 CanadianBritish film, the first movie by writer and director Philip Goodhew. It stars Rupert Graves, Julie Walters and a fifteenyearold Laura Sadler, the only feature film in her short career. The film is a drama and black comedy about a young man who has an affair with the middleaged housewife he is lodging with. Matters are soon complicated when the housewifes teenage daughter gets involved after developing a crush on the young lodger.
Marjorie Beaslie Walters is a housewife in her forties who takes in a lodger named Harold Guppey Graves, who has just stumbled into town to look up his longlost brother played by Les Dennis. Although seemingly prudish she no longer sleeps in the same bed as her husband, for medical reasons, Marjorie takes a liking to Harold despite him being a good twenty years her junior. They begin to have a clandestine affair, sneaking into bed together at night. Ever since taking in her lodger, Marjorie insists that Harold refer to her as mum, giving more than a little oedipal slant to their subsequent lustful antics.Marjories youngest daughter is fourteenyearold Joyce Sadler, a precocious, Lolitalike girl who alternates between trying to act grown up by putting on make up and smoking cigarettes, and acting childish by grossing people out with tales of medieval punishments and giggling at rude words. ........
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