Characters & Themes
Yellowbacks (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 80 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Roy Battersby
- Starring
- Imelda Staunton, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Paterson, Jonny Phillips, Janet McTeer
Set in a near‑future Britain, the film takes place in an abandoned hotel where a young female doctor and a middle‑aged scientist are separately interrogated. Both are asked the same urgent question—‘Where is Martin Pitt?’ Their interrogations hint at a tense, mysterious search for the missing man amid a bleak, futuristic landscape.
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