• Director(s)

    Sam Mendes

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    21/03/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Performance

  • Approx. running minutes

    165m

  • Cast

    Johnny Flynn, Tuppence Middleton, Mark Gatiss

Film

National Theatre Live: The Motive and The Cue

very strong language

Themes of homophobia and family trauma feature with very strong language in this live recording of a play inspired by the turbulent rehearsals for John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet in 1964, which starred Richard Burton.…

Themes of homophobia and family trauma feature with very strong language in this live recording of a play inspired by the turbulent rehearsals for John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet in 1964, which starred Richard Burton.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

rude humour

theme

threat and horror

  • Director(s)

    Sam Mendes

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    21/03/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Performance

  • Approx. running minutes

    165m

  • Cast

    Johnny Flynn, Tuppence Middleton, Mark Gatiss

very strong language
Classified Date:
11/03/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre
violence
There are slapstick moments of violence, including a stylised stabbing during a rehearsal of a Shakespearean play.
language
There is use of very strong language ('c**t'), strong language ('f**k') and other milder terms ('whore', 'bloody', 'sod', 'dick', 'crap', 'tart', 'hell', 'Jesus', 'God' and 'damn').
sex
Scenes establishing sex occur, including a man removing a woman's underwear from underneath her dress as he straddles her on a sofa. A person meets with a sex worker in a hotel room and they discuss sex, oral sex and masturbation in a matter-of-fact manner, but things don't progress in a sexual way. There are also verbal sex references and innuendo, often comic in tone.
discrimination
Two gay men discuss the prejudice and discrimination they face living in their own skin, particularly in the US. Discriminatory terms are used ('fairy', 'queers'), but are reported speech only. The production as a whole clearly opposes discriminatory attitudes.
drugs
Occasional verbal references are made to actors taking prescription medication to handle their nerves, or to rid them of a hangover.
rude humour
Jokes about passing wind and underwear feature on occasion.
theme
Verbal references are made to a young boy being abandoned by his abusive, drunken father, which also come with scenes of emotional upset.
Classified Date:
23/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre

  • Classified date

    11/03/2024

  • Language

    English