Another Country (1984)

This is... not Maurice. I think the main issue here is that this is only a story about schoolboys and the stupid English prep school system. It is a critique of this system and of British masculinity and hypocrisy and homophobia, and that's all good and well, but unfortunately Another Country doesn't really aim higher than that. It's good, and it's fun to see Cary Elwes (so cute) and Rupert Everett and Colin Firth, but this film just doesn't ever really lift off. The problem is that Another Country has this frame of Rupert Everett's character in the USSR in the 1980s, and we know that he was a spy and turned against the UK. I would've been super interested in the spy story, but the movie is only interested in Britain and its hypocrisies. This is a play, too (although the film is not stagey at all), and I wonder if it worked better on stage.