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) Governor of Guernsey during the English Civil War, was Francis's elder brother. Francis Osborne married Anna Draper, sister of the prominent Parliamentarian Colonel William Draper: John was the only boy among their four surviving children. Francis shared his brother-in-law's political beliefs, although he played little part in public life. His celebrated book "Advice to a Son", which he intended for John's education, was published in two volumes in 1656 and 1658. He moved to Oxford to be closer to his son, and died there in 1659. John Osborne was at Magdalen College from 1648 to 1651 and became a fellow