Look Back in Anger (1959) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1959 · 98 min · English

#3,039 4

Directed by

Tony Richardson

Starring

Claire Bloom, Donald Pleasence, Gary Raymond, Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Edith Evans

Set in a bleak Northern England, the film follows Jimmy Porter, a frustrated jazz musician consumed by anger and resentment towards societal norms. His turbulent personality and sharp tongue are challenged when his wife, Alison, a woman from a privileged background, invites her charming friend Helena to their home. As Helena becomes entangled in their volatile relationship, long-simmering tensions and unspoken desires threaten to shatter their fragile existence and ignite a destructive cycle of rebellion and recrimination.