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An indictment of the British class system dressed up like a Ralph Lauren ad, Another Country is the movie that made a very young and very gorgeous Rupert Everett a star. Whatever other ideas it has knocking around its head (and there are quite a lot of them), director Marek Kanievska's adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play is first and foremost a star vehicle for Everett, who played the openly gay main character with a vigor, flair, and smoldering appeal that was rarely seen onscreen in the early '80s. Everett is Guy Bennett, a charming, confident schoolboy in 1930s England who yearns to climb to the top of the social strata at his Eton-like school. His ambitions, however, are waylaid by the young and equally gorgeous James Harcourt (Cary Elwes), with whom he begins a passionate yet secret affair. Soon, however, Guy finds that balancing his love and his ambition is a no-win situation, and that no matter how hard he bucks against it, the ages-old traditional structures of British class and etiquette won't yield in his wake. Added to all this E.M. Forster-style drama and romance is the fact that Guy later on becomes a spy for the Russians against England; it's a weighty theme to drop on the movie, and the fact that it's a true story just shows how less than artfully the film unfolds. Still, holding it all together is the sublime Everett, who took this persona of the classy, beautiful, passionate, British gay man and ran with it throughout the '80s and '90s. With Colin Firth as Everett's Marxist (and heterosexual) compatriot. --Mark Englehart
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Rating:  - Another Country. Another World. Another Place.
It is odd what Cannes would allow in 1984. Among them a British film at the cusp of the British Film Movement about a group of closeted homosexual boys, unwilling to leave the comfort of their university, of which one eventually becomes the coveted Russian spy Guy Burgess (or at least a small transgression). On several top ten lists of international critics, this viewer had trouble understanding the overall tones, themes, and relative points to the film. Was this a simple love story? Was this ... Read More
Rating:  - Another Country, Another Movie
I was bored to tears!!! This is a real lackluster movie. Dialogue poor, cinematography ordinary and the acting boring. Believe me, you can't wait to see this sleeper....yawn!
F.Poe
NYC
Rating: - Another Country
Another Country, while very entertaining, lacks the necessary elements of a really good plot. Most of the men in the movie are beautiful and that makes it difficult to know which ones were involved in homosexual activity and which ones were not.
Rupert Everett was very young during the making of this film and to be honest his Oscar Wilde films (The Important of Being Ernest and An Ideal Husband) are far superior to this one.
Gay people can oooh and aaah over the pretty ... Read More
Rating:  - The Betrayal of the Western Elites
A number of the British elites betrayed their country on behalf of the Communist utopian dream. They were the upper crust of the establishment---and above suspicion. Few ever considered the possibility that these scoundrels might possibly pose a security threat. Their leftist political views during their university years was shrugged off as not of great importance. "Another Country" is a fictional account of how these narcissistic individuals may have been seduced into joining Stalin's crusade ... Read More
Rating:  - I miss the Cricket
I truly wanted to love this movie. The one thing it is definitely not short on is potential. The ending however is one of the sorriest I've ever witnessed and leaves way too many unanswered questions. Although it is in English, the accents are extremely heavy and hard to understand, which makes it difficult at best to keep up with the plot.
In a shabby apartment in Moscow, an American journalist asks a retired spy why he betrayed his country and defected to Russia 50 years ago. The answers ... Read More
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