Intimate Relations

Intimate Relations is a 1996 British movie It was the first movie by writer and director Philip Goodhew and starred Rupert Graves and Julie Walters. It also starred a fifteen-year-old Laura Sadler, the first and only feature film in her short career.

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1996 - British - Movie - Philip Goodhew - Rupert Graves - Julie Walters - Laura Sadler

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It is a drama and black comedy about a young man who has an affair with the middle-aged housewife he is lodging with. Matters are soon complicated when the housewife's teenage daughter gets involved after developing a crush on the young lodger.

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The film takes place in the 1950s in the suburbs of London. The theme of the movie is exposing the hypocrisy of prudish attitudes, the way the upstanding residents of a seemingly respectable household are, behind closed doors, indulging in the sort of sordid goings on they would publically sneer at.

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1950s - Suburbs - London

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The title comes from an old fashioned euphamism of British newspapers for sex, particularly in kiss and tell stories featuring celebrities. Reports often wrote that "...and intimate relations took place between them", simply meaning the people involved in the story had sex with one another.

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Euphamism - Sex

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