The Ploughman's Lunch

'Witty expose...comic vitality...proof that there really is a revival of cinema in this country.' THE TIMES 'Every foot of it has the intelligence, emotion, truth and implications that I look for in life and value in art'. Alexander Walker, THE STANDARD 'Gleeful social satire...perceptive'. THE GUARDIAN 'Brilliantly observed...a film crammed with excellence...' WHAT'S ON 'A sharp pleasure of a film...feisty British cinema at its most challenging'. TELEGRAPH 'See it quickly.' SUNDAY TIMES A Man of Our Times...In An Age of Deceit. In radio reporter James Penfield's world, to succeed is everything and conquest is pursued at any cost. History has become a commodity and disorting the truth is part of the process, be it reporting the invasion or writing a history book about Suez. Even the name 'The Ploughman's Lunch', for some a symbol of traditional England, is in fact a fabrication-the product of an advertising campaign. In this world the opportunist gets everything he wants except the unattainable, beautiful women although he may sleep with her mother as a means of achieving his ultimate aim. A world of ambition at the expense of principle. A world of public and private deceit. © Goldcrest Films