For Queen and Country
1988 film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Queen and Country is a 1988 crime drama film co-written and directed by Martin Stellman and starring Denzel Washington in Panavision. Washington stars as Reuben James, a Black British former paratrooper, who joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city London; Reuben fights in the Falklands War, and upon returning home he finds that society ignores and challenges him while trying to adjust to normal life.
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Directed by | Martin Stellman |
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Produced by | Tim Bevan |
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Cinematography | Richard Greatrex |
Edited by | Steve Singleton |
Music by | Michael Kamen |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $3.5 million[3] |
Box office | $191,051 (US)[4] £124,048 (UK)[5] |
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The film received mixed reviews and was a box office flop. It has recently been reevaluated as a serious critique of Thatcherism and its effects on the UK in the 1980s.[6][7]