Look Back in Anger (1980 film) Look Back in Anger (1980 film) Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger". "Look Back in Anger" is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with
John Osborne (barrister) Parliament. After the Glorious Revolution he was restored to office as Serjeant-at-law. His notable independence of mind, and his hatred of all former Jacobites, Protestant as well as Roman Catholic, even those who had pledged their loyalty to the new King William III, soon made him almost as obnoxious to the new regime as he had been to the old. He was dismissed from office shortly before his death in 1692. His father Francis Osborne was the fifth son of Sir John Osborne of Chicksands Priory, Shefford, Bedfordshire and his wife Dorothy Barlee of Effingham Hall, Essex; Peter Osborne, Royal