

A Private Function
When a clandestine party goes wild, it's all about pork... and prestige.
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
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- Language
- English
- northern england
- pig
- satire
- yorkshire
- rural area
- working class
- post war
- food rationing
- 1940s
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalR1 Mar 1985
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical9 Nov 1984
- TVChannel 410 Mar 1988
- Physical15DVD27 Jun 2016
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical29 Aug 1985
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1612 Dec 1985
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1224 Oct 1985
- Physical12DVD28 Oct 2003
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A Private Function was released on 9 November 1984.
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CinemaSerf
12/6/2025
The forthcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip is a cause for celebration in post war Britain, but it isn’t going to affect rationing that still only allows one person one rasher of bacon per week. The folks of a small Yorkshire town have their own cunning plan. Secreted in the middle of the woods, they have a pig. Despite the best efforts of the ferret-like detective “Wormold” (Bill Paterson), they …
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