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Misbehaviour (12A)
Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe
THE 1970 Miss World protest by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement, which put them on the global map overnight, is immortalised and celebrated in this wonderfully entertaining yet poignant comedy drama.
The protesters, who infiltrated the televised beauty pageant as audience members, disrupted the proceedings live on air. They hurled flour bombs and fired a water pistol at the show’s host, the womanising “comedy legend” Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear), following his appalling sexist jokes and in protest at the demeaning way the competition treated and portrayed women.
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