Absurd Person Singular

Name: Absurd Person Singular
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Cheryl Campbell, Michael Gambon, Nicky Henson

TV Movie
1985
Not Rated
1h 55m

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

YOUR RATING

Comedy

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look ... Read allA movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.

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IMDb RATING

8.4/10

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Trivia
Maureen Lipman had to be persuaded to stop cleaning the oven after each take. She loves cleaning ovens it seems.

Goofs
In the third act, Maureen Lipman is seen in a succession of shots from one angle wearing a paper hat and from another angle not wearing a paper hat - also from one angle there is a streamer looped over her shoulder, and in the other... no streamer.

Quotes
[Hearing the doorbell, after admiring the Hopcrofts' washing machine]
Marion Brewster-Wright: Ooh! Does that mean your shirt's cooked or something?

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Featured review

9/10

3 Couples / 3 Kitchens / 3 Christmas Parties

Superb teleplay of Ayckbourn's stage hit taking us to three kitchens of three business associates and their spouses on three successive Christmases (last Christmas, this Christmas, next Christmas). Over the three years fortunes and fates are reversed and the manic laughter of last Christmas turns to surreal abandon next Christmas. Super perfs all-around but of note by Maureen Lipman and Geoff Palmer. Is the ending heartbreaking or hilarious? Both? You decide.