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1968 · 93 mins · English
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Directed by
Peter Hall
Starring
David Warner, Alan Howard, Zia Mohyeddin, John Steiner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs

A dreamlike satire follows a young man who initially refuses a job at the sole employer in his bleak, industrial town. When he discovers the plant’s boiler room offers an ideal climate for his beloved horticultural—actually fungal—experiment, he reconsiders, finding purpose amid the town’s odd, perfectly normal characters.

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