Beautiful Thing
A love story.
2013 · 114 min · ★ 8.7 · Drama
This 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey's play about two working class teenage boys falling in love on a south east London council estate was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Arts Theatre in London's Leicester Square.
Directed by Robert Delamere
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