BASED ON THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY: Home Entertainment Release of A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL starring Hugh Grant + Ben Whishaw Announced
Based on the Incredible True Story
The BBC have announced the the Home Entertainment July release of Stephen Frears' A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw!
Out on DVD on July 2, A Very English Scandal is the shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy to murder. It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been decriminalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party and the youngest leader of any British political party in a hundred years, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his vociferous ex-lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk, and eventually Thorpe can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed politics forever as the British public discovered the darkest secrets of the Establishment and the lengths they’d go to conceal them.
Adapted from John Preston’s book “A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment”, written by Russell T Davies (“Dr Who”, “Queer As Folk”, “Cucumber”) and directed by Stephen Frears (Florence Foster Jenkins, The Queen, Philomena, Dangerous Liaisons), A Very English Scandal stars Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Norman Scott.
A Very English Scandal has 3 episodes (a running time of approx. 2 hours 48 minutes total) and is rated 15
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