
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 127m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom
- Director: Harold Pinter
- Stars: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Michael Byrne, Georgina Hale, Simon Rouse
- keywords: alcohol, college, based on play or musical, lgbt, english professor
- Production_studio: Cinévision Ltée, The American Film Theatre
- Slogan: His wife just left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.
- providers: Kino Film Collection
- The Butley is featured in the top rankings of 1974
- #87 in Top Drama Movies of 1974
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.