Foreign Body | |
Director: | Ronald Neame |
Producer: | Colin M. Brewer |
Screenplay: | Celine La Freniere |
Based On: | Foreign Body by Roderick Mann |
Starring: | Victor Banerjee Trevor Howard Warren Mitchell Geraldine McEwan Denis Quilley Amanda Donohoe Eve Ferret Anna Massey Stratford Johns |
Music: | Ken Howard |
Cinematography: | Ronnie Taylor |
Editing: | Andrew Nelson |
Distributor: | Rank Film Distributors Orion Pictures |
Runtime: | 111 min. |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Foreign Body is a 1986 British romantic comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and adapted from the 1975 Roderick Mann novel of the same name. The film stars Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Denis Quilley, and Amanda Donohoe. It was Neame's final film.
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in mid-1970s Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.[1]
Walter Goodman of The New York Times didn't give the film a good review stating: