A Private Function

6.4

United Kingdom

Comedy

96 min

1984

Michael Palin Reece Dinsdale Charles McKeown Susan Porrett Donald Eccles Denys Hawthorne Don Estelle Bernard Wrigley Gilly Coman Maggie Ollerenshaw Rachel Davies Pete Postlethwaite Maggie Smith Denholm Elliott Richard Griffiths Tony Haygarth John Normington Bill Paterson Liz Smith Alison Steadman Jim Carter Jill Goldston

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.