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Food of Love
Richard E. Grant leads a dramatic reunion as friends and lovers gather to perform Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in Stephen Poliakoff’s romantic comedy.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Overview
Bored by London life and a career in banking, Alex (Richard E. Grant) embarks on a scheme to reunite his old university friends to restage a performance of Twelfth Night in a small English village. Writer and director Poliakoff explores how the past clashes with the present in powerful and unexpected ways as former passions are reignited and youthful dreams revived through Shakespeare’s comedy.
strong language and sex
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