A Private Function
Michael Palin (A Fish Called Wanda) teams with OscarÂ(r) winner* Maggie Smith (Gosford Park) in this uproarious comedy in which 'the laughs come fast  (Variety) and the upper class becomes furious! Co-starring Denholm Elliott, Pete Postlethwaite and one divine swine, this hilarious comedy is  alive and unruly, [and] the humor keeps boiling up  (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker)!  Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire, where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a married working-class couple (Palin and Smith) discovers that the town's wealthy elite has been secretly fattening up an  illegal  pig for their own selfish gluttony, they hatch an outlandish kidnapping scheme that gives new meaning to the phrase  bringing home the bacon !   *1969: Actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 1978: Supporting Actress, California Suite