What is A Single Man / Another Country about?

A SINGLE MAN, 2009, The Weinstein Company, 101 min. Fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford's lavishly stylish adaptation of the seminal Christopher Isherwood novel is a heartbreaking meditation on the pressure to hide one's true self. Colin Firth turns in the performance of a lifetime as a gay college professor in the 1960's who must grieve silently when his longtime lover (Matthew Goode) is killed in a car accident. Julianne Moore is captivating as Firth's boozily unhappy best friend. ANOTHER COUNTRY, 1984, 20th Century Fox, 90 min. Dir. Marek Kanievska. It is the 1930's and a controversial friendship emerges between openly gay school boy Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and his Marxist-leaning cohort Tommy Judd (Colin Firth). When a scandal followed by tragedy mars the school, tensions mount and the two outsiders attempt to expose and shake up the conventionality and hypocrisy of the rigid world surrounding them.

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What is A Single Man / Another Country about?: A SINGLE MAN, 2009, The Weinstein Company, 101 min. Fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford's lavishly stylish adaptation of the seminal Christopher Isherwood novel is a heartbreaking meditation on the pressure to hide one's true self. Colin Firth turns in the performance of a lifetime as a gay college professor in the 1960's who must grieve silently when his longtime lover (Matthew Goode) is killed in a car accident. Julianne Moore is captivating as Firth's boozily unhappy best friend.
ANOTHER COUNTRY, 1984, 20th Century Fox, 90 min. Dir. Marek Kanievska. It is the 1930's and a controversial friendship emerges between openly gay school boy Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and his Marxist-leaning cohort Tommy Judd (Colin Firth). When a scandal followed by tragedy mars the school, tensions mount and the two outsiders attempt to expose and shake up the conventionality and hypocrisy of the rigid world surrounding them.