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Misbehaviour

Synopsis

In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly-formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada - the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.

Details

Year
2019
Type of project
Features
Director
Philippa Lowthorpe
Producer
Suzanne Mackie, Sarah-Jane Wheale
Executive Producer
Andy Harries, Rebecca Frayn, Cameron McCracken, Jenny Borgars, Rose Garnett, Natascha Wharton, Andrea Scarso
Editor
Una Ni Dhonghaile
Screenwriter
Rebecca Frayn, Gaby Chiappe
Director of Photography
Zac Nicholson
Production Designer
Cristina Casali
Principal cast
Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Suki Waterhouse, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans, Phyllis Logan

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Pathé, BBC Films, Ingenious Media, BFI presentation of a Left Bank Pictures Production

Pathé UK

6 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7TY

Left Bank Pictures

7th Floor, The Place
175 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7AA

Sales Company

Pathé International

6 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7TY

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