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Preaching to the Perverted is a British film of genre Drama directed by Stuart Urban released in USA on 4 july 1997 with Guinevere Turner
Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 july 1997
Length 1h40
Directed by Stuart Urban
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Rating58%
Preaching to the Perverted is a 1997 British comedy film written and directed by Stuart Urban.
The film stars Guinevere Turner as Tanya Cheex, a New York dominatrix. Tom Bell plays Henry Harding MP and Christien Anholt plays Peter Emery. In addition, several well-known BDSM performance artists appear:
Chaos Clowns
Luci the Axle Grinder, also known as "Lucifire"
Miss Kimberly
The Fetisnonn
Suzi Woodroffe
Tutu
The film was originally developed by the BBC, but they later dropped the script, believing it would never be suitable for broadcast on UK TV. However, in April 2004 the movie was shown on terrestrial TV in the UK on BBC One.
The film was banned in Ireland by then film censor Sheamus Smith.
In 2013 the film became the first European feature film to be restored and remastered on crowd-funding site Kickstarter by its fans. The remastered Blu-ray became available in August 2013. The film also inspired the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Show "Darkest Fantasy", based on the character Tanya's wedding fantasy.
Synopsis
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the United Kingdom BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress. Amongst the locations used Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.Actors
Guinevere Turner
(Tanya Cheex)
Tom Bell
(Henry Harding MP)
Christien Anholt
(Peter Emery)
Ricky Tomlinson
(Fibbin' Gibbins)
Roger Lloyd-Pack
(Mr. Cutts Watson)
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