A Shocking Accident is a 1982 British short comedy film directed by James Scott, based on Graham Greene's short story by the same name. About a boy whose father is killed in Naples, when a pig falls on him as a balcony collapses. The incident haunts the boy through his later life until he meets a girl who understands his side of the story. The film won an Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short and was nominated for BAFTA in 1983.
Rupert Everett
Jerome Weathersby
Jenny Seagrove
Sally
Barbara Hicks
Aunt Joyce
Benjamin Whitrow
Headmaster
Tim Seely
Stephen
Richenda Carey
Susan
Sophie Ward
Amanda
Sarah Elliott
Brenda
Daniel Chatto
Paul
A Shocking Accident is a 1982 British short comedy film directed by James Scott, based on Graham Greene's short story by the same name. About a boy whose father is killed in Naples, when a pig falls on him as a balcony collapses. The incident haunts the boy through his later life until he meets a girl who understands his side of the story. The film won an Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short and was nominated for BAFTA in 1983.
I thought that this had a little of the “Tales of the Unexpected” to it as we first meet a Neapolitan lady who is lovingly feeding her rather substantial pig on her rickety balcony several floors up above the street. Shortly afterwards, we learn that the poor young “Jerome”, a long way away at a posh English boarding school, has just been orphaned and that the cause of his predicament is the source of much mirth and ridicule at school. Indeed, it isn’t only there but as he grows older this misadventure continues to provide much merriment at his expense as his aunt (Barbara Hicks) takes a particularly honest view when regaling her guests with this story even after he has become an accountant. Now old enough to do some courting, he (Rupert Everett) meets “Sally” (Jenny Seagrove) but what chance she will just snigger too, or might she react differently? This is really a one joke story that seems more designed to poke fun at folks too ignorant to appreciate just how traumatic the experience might have been for the young lad, and though Barbara Hicks manages her stuck-up role with aplomb, Everett and the always wooden Seagrove present something really quite timidly shallow. It looks good, with plenty of attention to the detail of the film but it’s all fairly sterile and forgettable stuff, sorry.
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