A Private Function

A Private Function is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1985.
== Description ==
The Comedy Crackling Of The Year!
"perfectly scrumptious film... THE COMEDY OF THE YEAR." DAILY MAIL. "...OH WHAT A CRACKER" DAILY MIRROR. "...the best comedy in years..." DAILY EXPRESS. Driven by the desperate social ambitions of his wife Joyce (Maggie Smith), one act of folly turned the life of sensitive, small-town chiropodist Gilbert Chivers (Michael Palin) into a nightmare. With Britain in the paranoid grip of Post-War food rationing, Gilbert steals Betty, a contraband pig being secretly fattened by a group of the town's dignitaries for a banquet to celebrate the Other Royal Wedding. But there is a price to be paid for the social leverage provided by the possession of a prize porker. Gilbert's squeamishness, his mother-in-law's senility and old Betty's incontinence lead to the discovery of the double dealing - Gilbert is inexorably caught up in the toils of the Black Market, ending up with blood on his hands and the police on the doorstep!
== Cast ==
* Michael Palin ... Gilbert Chilvers
* Maggie Smith ... Joyce Chilvers
* Denholm Elliott ... Dr Charles Swaby
* Richard Griffiths ... Henry Allardyce the Accountant
* Tony Haygarth ... Leonard Sutcliff the Farmer
* John Normington ... Frank Lockwood the Solicitor
* Bill Paterson ... Morris Wormold the Meat Inspector
* Liz Smith ... Joyce's Mother
* Alison Steadman ... Mrs Allardyce
* Jim Carter ... Inspector Noble
* Pete Postlethwaite ... Douglas J. Nuttol the Butcher
* Rachel Davies ... Mrs Forbes, Mr Wormold's landlady
* Reece Dinsdale ... P.C. Penny
Category:VHS
Category:UK VHS Releases
Category:1985 VHS Releases
Category:BBFC 15