Another Country

Absolutely breathtaking to watch two of my favorite British actors, Rupert Evert and Colin Firth, as well as Cary Elwes just at the beginning of their long careers. Firth is almost unrecognizable. And these matters weren't ancient history when the film came out, despite being set in the thirties. I'm well into my 70's now, so anyone who thinks these issues weren't still pertinent in America in the fifties and sixties need to think again. Wikipedia interestingly comments that many interiors were filmed at Althorp, seat of the Spencer family (think Princess Diana) and her brother Charles, 9th Earl Spencer, appears as an unspeaking extra in several scenes.

holistically, i'm not convinced if this movie works all that well but it's two leads are amazing in their roles and i can't deny how fun it is to watch.

Don't understand much

Great performances by Everett and Firth,but other than that this was not very passionately made.It provides some food for thought but not as much as it should have had.Quite interesting but never succeeds in hooking you in.

Interesting film, but I think I would have rather seen the spy portion rather than his time at Eton. The actors were amazing, the story was not.

Playing like a mishmash of Kicking and Screaming and Maurice without the former's insufferable characters and the latter's glacial pace, Another Country is both consistently funny and legitimately sad, serving as an indictment of the systemic homophobia that permeated the English aristocracy of the 1930s as well as a lighthearted boarding school romance story (although it suffers from an easy narrative bookending device utilized by countless other films).

Intense drama about British boarding school politics with an entrancing recreation of the 1930s era. Good performances as schoolboy characters from the cast as well.

Wonderfully acted and ambitious in its twin targets of homophobia and the English class system, this film seems aimed at leftie gays like me. None of the supposed sexiness really sizzled for me (maybe because they're all a bit young for me now, or at least they're playing characters who are), but the plot and the emotional investment of the characters had me totally enthralled.

A film much more concerned about manners than men. Another Country is trapped by the ceremonies and traditions of the English public schools system, and fails to explore the relationships bound by it. Neither does it have enough about socialism to justify using Guy Burgess as basis for the main character. It seems a too literal adaptation of the play, and needs serious fleshing-out. We know little more about the characters at the end of the film than at the beginning, and the whole film degenerates into a docu-drama. Nevertheless, some solid performances.

The movie was a challenge to follow, but very well done if you are looking for another gay roamance. I adore the movie! :D