Secret Friends
– As an express train hurtles towards its destination, John (Alan Bates) a man whose sanity hangs by a..
As an express train hurtles towards its destination, John (Alan Bates) a man whose sanity hangs by a thread, attempts to uncover his possible role in a brutal murder and the identity of the victim. The balance of his mind is strained to the limits by dark memories of a punishing childhood and a passionate jealousy for a beautiful young woman (Gina Bellman) - who may be a prostitute... or his wife.
25 Sep 1992
English
Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter (novel), Dennis Potter (screenplay)
Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Frances Barber, Tony Doyle
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions. Potter viewed John as "a victim of what he himself has created, a sexual fantasy that gets out of control. Fantasy should be one of the registered sexually transmitted diseases which in John's case, it is."
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