50 years on from its first transmission, the BBC's Play for Today anthology series remains one of British television's most influential and celebrated achievements. Between 1970 and 1984, plays which combined some of the era's finest writing, acting and directing talents were broadcast direct to living rooms, regularly challenging viewers and pushing the boundaries of TV drama. In Play for Today: Volume Three, six more iconic dramas from the series arrive on Blu-ray for the first time, further demonstrating the trailblazing qualities of these innovative, stimulating and abiding television landmarks. The Plays Edna, the Inebriate Woman (Written by Jeremy Sandford | Dir. Ted Kotcheff, 1971) Just Another Saturday (Written by Peter McDougall | Dir. John Mackenzie, 1975) Bar Mitzvah Boy (Written by Jack Rosenthal | Directed by Michael Tuchner, 1976) * The Mayor's Charity (Written by Henry Livings | Dir. Mike Newell, 1977) Coming Out (Written by James Andrew Hall | Dir. Carol Wiseman, 1979) A Hole in Babylon (Written by Jim Hawkins and Horace Ové | Dir. Horace Ové, 1979)
From the director of Cube comes the latest mind-blowing sci-fi experience. An unsuspecting disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale...
A computer geek is thrilled when he lands a job in corporate espionage but after meeting a mystery woman who seems to know far more than he does, he turns into a double agent. And then his problems really start.
A twisted romance in America's deep south, Buttercup Bill follows mutually obsessed friends struggling to find something like love beneath the wreckage of a broken past. After the suicide of a childhood playmate, Pernilla (Remy Bennett) loiters in the seedy underbelly of New York's nightlife until she calls on estranged Patrick (Evan Louison) and arrives on the doorstep of his isolated Louisiana cabin. Shut in there together, surrounded by the peeling walls of Southern religion and the bottle, they re-light what they once had. What is at first innocent and playful gives way to cruel games of sexual jealousy as the pair attempt to reconcile a terrible secret that haunts them both. With a breakthrough performance from lead and co-director Remy Bennett, Buttercup Bill is a stylish, provocative and unflinching portrayal of infatuation rusted with guilt.
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