Characters & Themes
Afternoon Off (1979) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1979 · 63 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Stephen Frears
- Starring
- Anna Massey, Philip Jackson, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Griffiths, Janine Duvitski, John Normington
Lee, a Chinese expatriate, works as a hotel waiter in England despite his limited English. After hearing that a girl named Iris may be interested in him, he decides to use his rare afternoon off to buy a box of chocolates and set out into the town, hoping to meet her and bridge the language gap.
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