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{{About|the 1988 film|the cooking show|Consuming Passions (TV series)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Original research|article|date=September 2008}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Consuming Passions
| caption =
| image = Consuming Passions FilmPoster.jpeg
| director = [[Giles Foster]]
| producer = [[William P. Cartlidge]]
| writer = [[Paul D. Zimmerman]]<br>[[Andrew Davies (writer)|Andrew Davies]]<br>(from a play ''[[Secrets (Black and Blue)|Secrets]]''<br>by [[Michael Palin]] and<br/>[[Terry Jones]])
| starring ={{Plainlist|
* [[Vanessa Redgrave]]
* [[Jonathan Pryce]]
* [[Tyler Butterworth]]
* [[Freddie Jones]]
* [[Prunella Scales]]
* [[Sammi Davis]]
* [[Thora Hird]]
}}
| music = [[Richard Hartley (composer)|Richard Hartley]]
| cinematography = [[Roger Pratt (cinematographer)|Roger Pratt]]
| editing = John Grover
| distributor = [[Vestron Pictures]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Consuming Passions (1988)|website=[[BBFC]]|access-date=22 October 2021|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/consuming-passions-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0yotuwmtc}}</ref>
| released =
| runtime = 98 min
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Consuming Passions''''' is a 1988 [[black comedy]] film which stars [[Vanessa Redgrave]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], and [[Sammi Davis]] and was directed by [[Giles Foster]]. The film is based on ''[[Secrets (1973 play)|Secrets]]'' by [[Michael Palin]] and [[Terry Jones]],<ref>John Walker (ed) ''Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000'', London: HarperCollins, 1999, p. 177</ref> a BBC [[television play]] broadcast in 1973.

In the film, a chocolate factory accidentally released a new luxury product which contained human flesh. When the product turns into a surprise sales hit, the factory's owners decide to market their products to [[human cannibalism|cannibals]] and to keep acquiring human [[corpse]]s as key ingredients.

==Synopsis==
The film tells the story of a chocolate factory preparing to launch a new luxury range, Passionelles. However, during the production run a worker falls into a vat of chocolate and dies, meaning human flesh is present in the first batch released.

The horrified owners try and fail to recall the chocolates, but when they go on sale, they prove a surprise hit. Keen to continue the success, the developers try to replicate the taste with animal meat, but this fails miserably - leading them to realise human flesh is the key ingredient, and going to extreme lengths to obtain dead bodies to use in the chocolate.

==Cast==
* [[Tyler Butterworth]] as Ian Littleton
* [[Jonathan Pryce]] as Mr Farris
* [[Freddie Jones]] as Graham Chumley
* [[Vanessa Redgrave]] as Mrs Garza
* [[Prunella Scales]] as Ethel
* [[Sammi Davis]] as Felicity
* [[Thora Hird]] as Mrs Gordon
* [[John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]] as Dr Forrester
* [[Timothy West]] as Dr Rees
* [[Bryan Pringle]] as Gateman
* [[Mary Healey]] as Mrs Eggleston
* [[Andrew Sachs]] as Jason
* [[Deddie Davies]] as Mrs Coot
* [[Willie Rushton|William Rushton]] as Big Teddy
* [[Wincey Willis]] as TV Presenter
* [[Linda Lusardi]] as French Beauty
* [[Patrick Newell]] as Lester
* [[Preston Lockwood]] as Josiah

==Critical reception==
In his review of the film in ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Vincent Canby]] asked "How could such a promisingly funny idea, and so many talented, intelligent people, have combined to make a film so breathlessly lame?", that "the misuse of Miss Redgrave defines just about everything that's wrong with [the film]," and "only Mr. Pryce [...] gives a consistently comic performance."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Canby |first1=Vincent |title=Review/Film; British Satire Takes On Capitalism and Takeovers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/06/movies/review-film-british-satire-takes-on-capitalism-and-takeovers.html |website=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |access-date=2024-01-24}}</ref> Writing in [[The Washington Post]], [[Desson Howe]] noted that the film "is kept bubbling by Foster's fast pace, and hysterically oddball performances by Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce and Sammi Davis."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Howe |first1=Desson |title=‘Consuming Passions’ |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/consumingpassionsrhowe_a0b1ac.htm |website=The Washington Post |publisher=The Washington Post Company |access-date=2024-01-23}}</ref> Critic Michael Wilmington wrote in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' that that film was "erratic but sometimes hilarious," that "to make a story like this work, you need to play it unafraid and full throttle, and [the film], unfortunately, has been pushed only to half," but that "there’s a refreshingly moral notion behind [the film]: an attack on the inhumanity of some modern corporate decisions."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilmington |first1=Michael |title=Movie Reviews : ‘Consuming Passions’ Embodies the Economic Ethic |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-02-ca-1386-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |publisher=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2024-01-23}}</ref>

The ''Time Out Film Guide'' describes the 'recipe' for this film and concludes that of the result: "the consistency should be lumpy and the taste insipid."<ref>John Pym (ed.) ''Time Out Film Guide 2009'', London: Aurum Press, 2008, p. 210</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0094907}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|consuming_passions}}

[[Category:1988 films]]
[[Category:1988 black comedy films]]
[[Category:British black comedy films]]
[[Category:British independent films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios]]
[[Category:Films about cannibalism]]
[[Category:Films directed by Giles Foster]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Andrew Davies]]
[[Category:1980s English-language films]]
[[Category:1980s British films]]
[[Category:Films based on television plays]]
[[Category:Films set in factories]]
[[Category:Films about chocolate]]
[[Category:Films scored by Richard Hartley (composer)]]
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