Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Directed byGiles Foster
Written byPaul D. Zimmerman
Andrew Davies
(from a play Secrets
by Michael Palin and
Terry Jones)
Produced byWilliam P. Cartlidge
Starring
CinematographyRoger Pratt
Edited byJohn Grover
Music byRichard Hartley
Distributed byVestron Pictures[1]
Running time
98 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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 by Michael Palin and Terry Jones,[2] 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 cannibals and to keep acquiring human corpses as key ingredients.

  1. ^ "Consuming Passions (1988)". BBFC. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ John Walker (ed) Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000, London: HarperCollins, 1999, p. 177