The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show ‘Steptoe and Son’. However, the show’s success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Samuels
Actors: Burn Gorman, Clare Higgins, Jason Isaacs, Phil Davis, Roger Allam, Rory Kinnear, Sophie Hunter, Zoƫ Tapper