Consenting Adults

5

United Kingdom

Drama

80 min

2007

Matt Ryan Robert Morgan Giles Cooper John Standing David Bamber Colin Stinton Mark Gatiss Richard Lintern Haydn Gwynne Amy Phillips Pip Torrens Mel Smith Samantha Bond Sean Biggerstaff Charles Dance Charles Reston

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.