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Mike Leigh at the BBC

Who’s Who

1h 16m

Directed by Mike Leigh • 1979 • United Kingdom
Starring Richard Kane, Joolia Cappleman, Phil Davis

With this caustically observed comedy, Mike Leigh crafted a scathingly funny satire of a group of wealth- and image-obsessed London yuppies. Centering on Alan (Richard Kane)—a social-climbing employee at a brokerage firm who makes no secret of his sycophantic love for the Queen and the British nobility he so desperately wishes to join—and his insufferably pretentious friends, WHO’S WHO is Leigh at his most unsparing and witheringly hilarious.

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