Garry Cooper

Stephen Frears directs this BAFTA-nominated biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina).

Independent drama from director Stephen Frears, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a homosexual Pakistani living in London with his alcoholic father, steals drug money and, with his lover Johnny (Day-Lewis), renovates a grungy laundrette.