The Shooting Party
- Original title
- The Shooting Party
- Year
- 1985
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Julian Bond. Novel: Isabel Colegate
- Cast
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- James Mason
- Edward Fox
- John Gielgud
- Dorothy Tutin
- Gordon Jackson
- Cheryl Campbell
- Robert Hardy
- Aharon Ipalé
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British nobleman James Mason invites an assorted group of acquaintances for a weekend shooting party on his huge estate. Among the participants are longtime rivals Edward Fox and Rupert Frazer, Fox's occasionally unfaithful wife Cheryl Campbell, and staunch anti-hunting advocate John Gielgud. The film unfolds in a carefully calculated but seemingly spontaneous fashion, in the manner of its 1938 ancestor Rules of the Game. Also like the earlier film, The Shooting Party casts a jaundiced eye towards class consciousness--and ends with a sudden, senseless but not altogether unexpected tragedy.
- Awards
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1985: BAFTA: Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay1985: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Supporting Actor (John Gielgud)1985: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Best Supporting Actor. 2 nominations1985: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Ten Films.
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