Misbehaviour
- 2020 film
Comedy drama based on the true story of feminist protests against the 1970 Miss World competition's London final. Stars Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville and more.
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Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2020
- Stars
- Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, Lesley Manville, Keeley Hawes, Rhys Ifans and Phyllis Logan
- Writers
- Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe
- Director
- Philippa Lowthorpe
- Producers
- Suzanne Mackie and Sarah-Jane Wheale
- Company
In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope.
At the time, the Miss World finale was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women's Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World.
In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
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Additional details
- UK certificate
- 12A
- Duration
- 106 minutes
- UK release
- Friday 13th March 2020
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Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Saturday 24th June 2023 at 10:20pm on BBC1
- Monday 19th December 2022 at 10:30pm on BBC2
- Sunday 6th March 2022 at 10:00pm on BBC2 Wales