Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends (1992)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1992-09-18

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Film4 Productions, BBC, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Renaissance Films

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$5 000 000

Revenue

$4 058 564

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Director

Kenneth Branagh

Actors

Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Rita Rudner, Phyllida Law, Tony Slattery, Alex Lowe
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Scenario

Rita Rudner, Martin Bergman

Producer

Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Evans

Operator

Roger Lanser

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Andrew Marcus, Mark Cooper
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• Some of the actors involved in the film actually studied together at Cambridge. Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, and Hugh Laurie were even in the university's drama society.
• The melody that Roger taps on the coffee cup was composed by Hugh Laurie.
• Filming took only 10 days.
• The entire opening scene, including the dance and backstage jokes, was filmed in a single four-minute take.
• Sarah Johnson, played by Alphonsine Emmanuel, is preparing for a production of Anton Chekhov's (1860-1904) play "The Cherry Orchard" (1903).
• The film is informally known as The British Big Chill.
• Peter, played by Stephen Fry, has an Apple Macintosh computer but no television. Fry was actually the second person in the UK to buy a Macintosh computer. The first buyer (he took two at once) was writer Douglas Adams (1952-2001).
• Sarah Johnson, played by Alfonsia Emmanuel, is preparing for a production of Anton Chekhov's (1860-1904) play "The Cherry Orchard" (1903).