For Queen and Country (1988)
- Original title
- For Queen & Country
- Directed by
- Martin Stellman
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 55 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Black British paratrooper returns from the Falklands War to inner-city London. He struggles to find work and faces racism and poverty as he tries to readjust to civilian life.
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What happens
For Queen and Country is a 1988 crime drama film co-written and directed by Martin Stellman and starring Denzel Washington, Dorian Healy, Bruce Payne, Amanda Redman, Sean Chapman and Graham McTavish. Filmed in Panavision, Washington stars as Reuben James, a Black British former paratrooper, who joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner-city London; Reuben fights in the Falklands War, and upon returning home he finds that society both ignores and challenges him while trying to adjust to normal life. At the time of its release For Queen and Country received mixed reviews and was a box office flop. In recent years the film has been reevaluated as a serious critique of Thatcherism and its socioeconomic effects on the UK in the 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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