Secret Friends

Unfairly neglected since its original low-key cinema run, Secret Friends is the only feature to be written and directed by Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective). Made shortly after his hugely controversial mini-series Blackeyes, the film centres on a writer, played by Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), who descends into a kind of madness during a train journey as memories, fantasies and psychotic visions collide.

Actor: Frances Barber
Actor: Gina Bellman
Actor: Joanna David
Actor: Tony Doyle
Art Director: Sarah Horton
Producer: Rosemarie Whitman
Director: Dennis Potter
Writer: Dennis Potter
Music: Nick Russell-Pavier
Production Design: Gary Williamson
Special FX A/V: Effects Associates
Make Up: Ann McEwan
Costumes: Sharon Lewis
Actor: Alan Bates
Editor: Clare Douglas
Cinematographer: Sue Gibson