My Night with Reg | |
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Directed by | Roger Michell |
Written by | Kevin Elyot (play and screenplay) |
Produced by | Simon Curtis |
Starring | David Bamber Anthony Calf Joe Duttine Roger Frost Kenneth MacDonald John Sessions |
Cinematography | John Daly |
Edited by | Kate Evans |
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Distributed by | BBC |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
My Night with Reg is a 1996 British film adapted from the Kevin Elyot play of the same title, and directed by Roger Michell, who had directed the play on stage. [1] [2] The film marks the beginning of Michell's career in film. [3] [4]
Entirely set among London's gay community in the mid-1980s against the background of the mounting AIDS crisis, My Night with Reg follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends over a period of several years. One of the group, the Reg mentioned in the title, is not a character in the play but the whole plot revolves around his apparent promiscuity and the chain reaction of deception and betrayal set off by it.