Rent The Imitation Game (1980)
3.7 of 5 from 59 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
Frinton-on-Sea, 1940. Impatient 19-year-old Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter) is expected to see out the war on the production line at the local munitions factory. Against the wishes of her strict father and dull fiancé, in a bid for freedom and self-fulfilment, she signs up for the ATS. In her soldier's training she befriends working-class Mary (Brenda Blethyn), and finds work at a listening station transcribing coded German transmissions. Moving on to the code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park, Cathy meets Turing-like mathematics don John Turner (Nicholas Le Provost) and is attracted by his endless curiosity. Circling ever closer to core operations, Cathy is kept in the dark by the secretive male hierarchy until she stumbles upon a secret signals intelligence file that may jeopardise her safety. - Actors:
- Harriet Walter, Lorna Yabsley, Bernard Gallagher, Gillian Martell, Simon Chandler, Nicholas Le Prevost, Brenda Blethyn, Patricia Routledge, Geoffrey Chater, Kristine Howarth, Keith Marsh, Carol Macready, Annie Hayes, Jean Leppard, Sue Greenwood, Penny Smith, Belinda Lang, Danny Webb, Peter Schofield, Tim Seely
- Directors:
- Richard Eyre
- Writers:
- Ian McEwan
- Aka:
- Play for Today: The Imitation Game
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, TV Dramas
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Reviews (1) of The Imitation Game
A Well Made film with a Depressing and Inconclusive end - The Imitation Game review by AS
A story with an extreme feminist bent where all the men are out to crush the women. However difficult it was for men and women to be ripped away from their families and friends to be part of an unfeeling and authoritarian organization, it was not just all against women. Based on personal accounts from women who actually served in the women's military services in the early 1940s, there were a wide variety of situations and women were often much appreciated for the outstanding work they carried out.
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