Secret Friends
1991·United Kingdom·108 min.
Available on
None platform
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions. Potter viewed John as "a victim of what he himself has created, a sexual fantasy that gets out of control. Fantasy should be one of the registered sexually transmitted diseases which in John's case, it is."
DirectorDennis Potter
ScreenwriterDennis Potter
CinematographySue Gibson
CastAlan Bates·Gina Bellman·Colin Jeavons·Frances Barber·Ian McNeice·Tony Doyle·Roy Hamilton·Joanna David·Rowena Cooper·Davyd Harries·Niven Boyd
Original titleSecret Friends