Karaoke

TV Mini Series
1996
1h 3m

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Daniel experiences bizarre coincidences as his screenplay about a karaoke bar employee named Sandra, murdered by Arthur "Pig" Mallion, seems to mirror reality, with a karaoke bar, an employe... Read allDaniel experiences bizarre coincidences as his screenplay about a karaoke bar employee named Sandra, murdered by Arthur "Pig" Mallion, seems to mirror reality, with a karaoke bar, an employee named Sandra, and a shady owner named Mallion.Daniel experiences bizarre coincidences as his screenplay about a karaoke bar employee named Sandra, murdered by Arthur "Pig" Mallion, seems to mirror reality, with a karaoke bar, an employee named Sandra, and a shady owner named Mallion.

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
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Albert Finney

Daniel Feeld

Roy Hudd

Ben Baglin

Richard E. Grant

Nick Balmer

Keeley Hawes

Linda Langer

Hywel Bennett

Arthur 'Pig' Mallion

Saffron Burrows

Sandra Sollars

Simon Donald

Neil Stuke

Peter (Movie)

Anna Chancellor

Anna Griffiths

Liz Smith

Mrs. Baglin…

Ian McDiarmid

Oliver Morse

Steven Mackintosh

Waiter (Movie)

Arturo Venegas

Luigi

Alison Steadman

Mrs. Haynes

Kate O'Toole

Staff Nurse

Stephen Boxer

Consultant

Julie Christie

Lady Ruth Balmer

Paul Raffield

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Trivia
Ewan McGregor: The passer-by whom Daniel Feeld overhears quoting lines from his script is Ewan McGregor who had appeared in another Dennis Potter play, Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), 5 years earlier.

Quotes
Daniel Feeld: It's the feeling that everything, so to say, out there has been prearranged, and all you have is a sliver of stage to act on. I don't know what to call it.
Anna Griffiths: Paranoia?
Daniel Feeld: Ha! I've always wanted to be an artsy fartsy arsehole, Anna. That's why I subscribe to that wonderful magazine, what's it called? Sight and Sound!

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Edited into Cold Lazarus (1996)

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where will the young reality tellers come?

Dennis Potter, who passes before these works, "Karaoke and Cold Lazarus" could be produced, asked in his last interview with Melvyn Bragg, "Where will the writers who want to tell stories about life as it truly is, beneath the hype and glitter, get their opportunity as I did in the 60's, in our current world of Rupert Murdoch sensibilities?" Karaoke is a tale of personal responsibility that reaches deeper than "E-network" can imagine in its most profoundly affected moments of easy sanctimony and sentimentality. This play should be at the peak of viewing assignments for all students of what TV can really do and be in a democracy that is real, not just a convenient platitude. Dennis Potter may have been the "Shakespeare" of our times. We will be lucky if such integrity and eloquence graces us again.