24 Jan 1990
Sensibility and Sense
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
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One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.
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Ian McKellen Spooner
Damien Molony Foster
Owen Teale Briggs
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