Movies
May, 1985
Only in England, where the mad Monty Python roams, would anyone be likely to produce a comedy as deliciously eccentric as A Private Function (Island Alive). The Pythons' own Michael Palin co-stars with Maggie Smith and a pig named Betty (as herself). Pignaping is the almost indescribable subject. The time is postwar Britain, 1947, with a royal wedding (Elizabeth's) imminent and all the elders of an English village plotting to celebrate the event with a feast of black-market pig, food rationing b...
