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Abigail's Party

7.4(48)19771h 47m1

Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over drinks and small talk, class differences and relationship difficulties emerge.

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Released
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Language
English
Part of Mike Leigh's Play For Today · 6 films
  • dysfunctional marriage
  • house party
  • tension
  • united kingdom

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Director

Mike Leigh

Writers

Mike Leigh

Produced in

United Kingdom

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  • Britbox Apple TV channel logoBritbox Apple TV channel
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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • TVPGBBC1 "Play for Today"1 Nov 1977

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Abigail's Party was released on 1 November 1977.

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    CinemaSerf

    3/27/2022

    7/10

    Alison Steadman is outstanding in this BBC "Play for Today" self-adaptation of Mike Leigh's play as the really quite hateful "Beverley' who gathers a few of her friends around for drinks and canapés only to have the evening slowly degenerate into an alcohol infused angry, bitter observation of snobbery and middle class anachronisms. The tensions rise - accompanied by the increasingly intrusive and irritating racket f…

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