NAKED (CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1993
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Mike Leigh's brilliant and controversial Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter on the lam in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharpe, Leigh's panorama of England's crumbling underbelly is a showcase of black comedy and doomsday prophecy, and was the winner of the best director and actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
• Cast: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, Peter Wight, Ewen Bremner, Susan Vidler, Deborah MacLaren, Gina McKee, Carolina Giammetta, Elizabeth Berrington, Darren Tunstall, Robert Putt, Lynda Rooke, Angela Curran, Peter Whitman, Jo Abercrombie, Elaine Britten, David Foxxe, Mike Avenall, Toby Jones, Sandra Voe, Mike Leigh, Dick Pope, Andrew Dickson
• Director: Mike Leigh
• Runtime: 2:12
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Fine Line Features, New Line Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie