Consenting Adults

Consenting Adults

80 mins | Drama | Sept. 4, 2007

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.

Consenting Adults

80 mins | Drama | Sept. 4, 2007

Consenting Adults
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers BBC, Lion Television
Original title Consenting Adults
Directors Richard Curson Smith
Writers Julian Mitchell

Cast

Matt Ryan

as Charlie Bullard

Jamie Martin

as Colin Parker

Charles Dance

as Jack Wolfenden

Sean Biggerstaff

as Jeremy Wolfenden

Samantha Bond

as Jill Wolfenden

Mel Smith

as David Maxwell Fyfe

Pip Torrens

as Frances Graham Harrison

Amy Phillips

as Priscilla Wolfenden

Haydn Gwynne

as Mary Cohen

Richard Lintern

as Goronwy Rees

Mark Gatiss

as PC Butcher

Colin Stinton

as Dr. Kinsey

David Bamber

as Dr. Carl Winter

John Standing

as Lord Goddard

Giles Cooper

as Philip French

Robert Morgan

as Lord Lothian

Charles Reston

as Michael