Queen and Country (film)
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| Directed by | John Boorman |
| Produced by | John Boorman Kieran Corrigan |
| Written by | John Boorman |
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Callum Turner Vanessa Kirby David Thewlis Richard E. Grant |
| Music by | Stephen McKeon |
| Cinematography | Seamus Deasy |
| Edited by | Ron Davis |
| Distributed by | BBC Worldwide |
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115 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $32,869 |
Queen and Country is a 2014 British drama film directed by John Boorman. It was selected to be screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a sequel to Boorman's 1987 film Hope and Glory, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and features several of the same characters, though with the passage of time most are played by different actors.
On Pharaoh's Island, Bill is now 18 and receives his call-up papers for national service. Reporting to the army training camp, he quickly makes friends with fellow-conscript Percy. Though most of their intake are sent off to fight in the Korean War, he and Percy are made sergeants and spend their days teaching typing. The bane of their life is Sergeant-Major Bradley, a decorated veteran of World War II who is obsessive about doing things by the book. An ally against Bradley is the orderly Redmond, who teaches them the military arts of skiving. However, Bradley succeeds in getting Bill charged with subverting a private's will to fight by telling him some truths about Korea. The case is thrown out when Bill shows that all he said had been printed in The Times.
Outside the camp, both friends explore what the town offers by way of women. Bill falls for a beautiful but depressive upper-class girl he calls Ophelia, while Percy is smitten by a bubbly student nurse called Sophie (who throws out some lures to Bill as well). On leave for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Percy steals a car to join Bill, who is with his family on the Island. Both are delighted to find Bill's renegade sister Dawn, who has returned from Canada, and Dawn is soon charming Percy. Ophelia makes a brief visit but has to dash back into London. On the television, the family spot her in Westminster Abbey as one of the nobility, something which Bill did not know. Back in camp, Bill gets word that Ophelia is again in hospital with mental problems and, when he visits her, she rejects him brutally. Shocked and in tears, he is found by Sophie, who leads him to an empty room and takes his virginity. Percy then confides that he lost his to Dawn.
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