Peter's Friends (1992) is a British comedy-drama film written by Rita Rudner and her husband Martin Bergman, and directed and produced by Kenneth Branagh. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Rita Rudner Rita Rudner (b. ... Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile Emmy Award-winning Northern Irish born British actor and film director. ...

It starred Hugh Laurie, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Imelda Staunton, Richard Briers, Stephen Fry, Rita Rudner, Tony Slattery, Phyllida Law, Alex Lowe, Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh. Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House in House James Hugh Calum Laurie (born June 11, 1959) is an English actor and writer. ... Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton OBE (born on January 9, 1956 in London) is an Academy Award nominated English actress of Irish Catholic descent. ... Richard Briers CBE (born on January 14, 1934 in Raynes Park, London), is an English actor whose career encompasses the theatre, television, film and radio. ... Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography (US Edition) Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker. ... Rita Rudner Rita Rudner (b. ... Anthony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is a British actor and comedian. ... Phyllida Law (born 8 May 1932) is a Scottish actress. ... Thompson in the 1989 film The Tall Guy Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award and BAFTA-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. ... Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile Emmy Award-winning Northern Irish born British actor and film director. ...

Story

It involves a party held by Peter (played by Fry) at his luxurious country house in which the friction between the various guests— old university friends who all graduated from Cambridge University ten years ago in 1982[1]—creates a good deal of comic tension until Peter finally declares that he has a serious announcement to make. The film deals with themes of friendship, marriage, fidelity, materialism, and coping with death and loss. It has often been referred to as a British The Big Chill. A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The Big Chill is a 1983 film which tells the story of several University of Michigan college friends who gather together again for the funeral of one of their number, after not having seen one another for years. ...

Soundtrack

The soundtrack featured many artists from the 1980s, including Tears for Fears (whose song Everybody Wants to Rule the World was heard over the opening credits of the film), The Pretenders and Bruce Springsteen. Notably the film includes a small cameo by Salman Rushdie in which he signs a copy of his own controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. Soundtrack refers to the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game. ... MacGyver is one of the symbols of the 1980s in America The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Tears for Fears are a successful British pop band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, which emerged after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate. ... Pretenders album cover, 1980. ... Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock and folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: , Hindi: on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born, ethnically Kashmiri, British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... The term Satanic Verses was coined by the historian Sir William Muir to refer to several verses alleged to have been part of an early version of the Quran and later expunged. ...

Trivia

Most of the cast are actually old university friends who attended Cambridge University together. Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery were involved in the Cambridge Footlights together. Laurie and Thompson dated while at university. Bergman is a close friend of the Branaghs and was at Cambridge as well. Rushdie also attended Cambridge. Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law plays the housekeeper in the film. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University. ...

External link

• Peter's Friends at The Internet Movie Database

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