- This movie is a BBC Four television dramatization of the events of the Wolfenden committee, whose report led to the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. Set in the 1950s, this movie depicts social attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain at that time, largely focusing on the committee's chair, Jack Wolfenden (Charles Dance), and his own homosexual son Jeremy (Sean Biggerstaff).—Peter Malone
- This is a film based on the life of the Wolfenden family and some characters in the city of Reading, England. Wolfenden whose son, Jeremy, professes to being Queer, is asked to chair a Home Office committee to look at the laws on Prostitution and Homosexuality. The story follows at least three story arcs. ONE: Wolfenden starting up the committee and dealing with the people who are interviewed, then coming to a decision about the laws surrounding prostitution and homosexuality. TWO: Jeremy Wolfenden's life as a young homosexual man in 1950s Britain. His arrival and success at Oxford, his stresses as a 'queer' man and the debates between him and his Father. THREE: Labourer, Charlie Bullard's relationship with '23 men' and particularly with Parker the baker with whom he becomes obsessed. Bullard is arrested and charged with 'offenses' and sees his former partners sentenced to 'an average of 3 and a half years in gaol'. The intertwining stories tell the story of the what it was like to be homosexual in 1950s England.
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