An Uncommonly Intelligent Work, Replete With Superior Moments.

Droll, inventive inversion of a murder mystery

Miranda Richardson and Bob Peck in After Pilkington (1987)

So there you are, Piglet - your little chum Patch has grown up into a murderess.

Bob Peck

Miranda Richardson

Reina James

Simon Gray

What&apos;s happened to Pilkington? James doesn&apos;t much care, he&apos;s far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.

Christopher Morahan

After Pilkington

Famous for his play &quot;Butley&quot;, made memorable by Alan Bates&apos; performance on both stage and film, writer Simon Gray concocted this highly original film for British television that manages to integrate elements of 1930s screwball comedy into veddy veddy British dark humor.

It&apos;s set in Oxford, with an everyman antihero played (and underplayed marvelously) by Bob Peck. Gray present a series of unusual coincidences and predicaments involving unsuspecting prof Peck and in so doing lays bare how traditional mysteries rely upon the viewer believing almost anything happening, no matter how outlandish it might seem at first glance, and how lying compounds the problems that accelerate in dizzying fashion. It&apos;s not credible, but delightfully strange, and with the performances of the three leading characters highly entertaining. Barry Foster (memorable in Hitchcock&apos;s &quot;Frenzy&quot;) and the exceptionally versatile Miranda Richardson, play another Oxford prof and his wife with whom Peck becomes inextricably bound up in both amusing and scary developments. To say anything more about what happens to them would surely spoil the fun.

Gray has planted drastic plot twists at key points, with the most major one turning the final reel into another genre entirely. But by then I was fully caught up in the plight of these fictional characters and willing to let Gray take them into uncharted territory.

Famous for his play "Butley", made memorable by Alan Bates' performance on both stage and film, writer Simon Gray concocted this highly original film for British television that manages to integrate elements of 1930s screwball comedy into veddy veddy British dark humor.

It's set in Oxford, with an everyman antihero played (and underplayed marvelously) by Bob Peck. Gray present a series of unusual coincidences and predicaments involving unsuspecting prof Peck and in so doing lays bare how traditional mysteries rely upon the viewer believing almost anything happening, no matter how outlandish it might seem at first glance, and how lying compounds the problems that accelerate in dizzying fashion. It's not credible, but delightfully strange, and with the performances of the three leading characters highly entertaining. Barry Foster (memorable in Hitchcock's "Frenzy") and the exceptionally versatile Miranda Richardson, play another Oxford prof and his wife with whom Peck becomes inextricably bound up in both amusing and scary developments. To say anything more about what happens to them would surely spoil the fun.

Gray has planted drastic plot twists at key points, with the most major one turning the final reel into another genre entirely. But by then I was fully caught up in the plight of these fictional characters and willing to let Gray take them into uncharted territory.

What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.

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