The Rachel Papers is a 1989 British film based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis. It stars Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye as the two main characters, and a number of famous names in supporting roles such as Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, James Spader, Jared Harris, Claire Skinner, and Michael Gambon.
With the original novel having described both emotional and physical experiences told from a narrative point of view, Dexter Fletcher conv...
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The Rachel Papers is a 1989 British film based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis. It stars Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye as the two main characters, and a number of famous names in supporting roles such as Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, James Spader, Jared Harris, Claire Skinner, and Michael Gambon.
With the original novel having described both emotional and physical experiences told from a narrative point of view, Dexter Fletcher conveys this stance by performing occasional "asides" to the audience and often "monologuing" to the camera in a style similar to the posture adopted by Matthew Broderick in the American film Ferris Bueller's Day Off from 1986. This has often led to critics citing this film as the UK's answer to that one, although aside from the monologuing, the two films are otherwise largely dissimilar in terms of plot and characters.
Nineteen year old Charles (Fletcher) is a highly sexed and precociously intelligent teenager about to attend Oxford University....
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