My Night with Reg (film)
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Anthony Calf
Joe Duttine
Roger Frost
Kenneth MacDonald
John Sessions
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| Directed by | Roger Michell |
| Written by | Kevin Elyot (play and screenplay) |
| Produced by | Simon Curtis |
| Starring | David Bamber Anthony Calf Joe Duttine Roger Frost Kenneth MacDonald John Sessions |
| Cinematography | John Daly |
| Edited by | Kate Evans |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | BBC |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
My Night with Reg is a 1996 British film adapted from the Kevin Elyot play of the same title, and directed by Roger Michell, who had directed the play on stage.[1][2] The film marks the beginning of Michell's career in film.[3][4]
Entirely set among London's gay community in the mid-1980s against the background of the mounting AIDS crisis, My Night with Reg follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends over a period of several years. One of the group, the Reg mentioned in the title, is not a character in the play but the whole plot revolves around his apparent promiscuity and the chain reaction of deception and betrayal set off by it.
Cast
- David Bamber as Guy
- Anthony Calf as John
- Joe Duttine as Eric
- Roger Frost as Bernie
- Kenneth MacDonald as Benny
- John Sessions as Daniel
Reception
Jasper Rees wrote in The Independent "there's a good deal of all male kissing here, but it's mostly polite, puckered pecking between consenting cruisers".[5] Phil Penfold of The Press wrote "the great thing about this story is that it's not a proselytising gay drama in the way that the first post-AIDS era movies were, its intention is more to take the stigma and terror out of gay lifestyles."[6]
