Director Don Boyd's portrayal of the extraordinary love story between a retired bus driver from Croydon and a retired teacher from Chelsea. One took to cruising public toilets and succumbed to drug addiction, crime and prison before personal rehabilitation. The other moved in a social sphere of dinner parties and T S Eliot readings at the seaside, yet had struggles of a different kind. (Storyville)
Direction
Boyd lets silence do the talking—devastating restraint.
Acting
Andrew and Jeremy: not actors, just devastatingly themselves.
Director
Don Boyd
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Storyville commissioned this during a brief golden age for queer British docs—part of a wave finally letting working-class gay lives exist on screen without tragedy-porn framing.
Don Boyd had to convince the BBC that Andrew and Jeremy's story deserved feature treatment—execs initially balked at the toilet-cruising detail, until Hanif Kureishi's involvement as associate producer lent credibility.
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