Peter's Friends

Name: Peter's Friends
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1992-09-18
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton

Love, friendship, and other natural disasters...

Peter's Friends (1992)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

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Release date

1992-09-18

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Film4 Productions, BBC, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Renaissance Films

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$5 000 000

Box office

$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
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Rita Rudner, Martin Bergman

Producer

Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Evans

Camera operator

Roger Lanser

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Andrew Marcus, Mark Cooper
Whole Team (26)

Short description

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

What's left behind the scenes

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).