Butley [Blu-ray]

Alan Bates is the whole show in this American Film Theater presentation of the London stage success by Simon Gray, brought to the screen by Harold Pinter, the famed British playwright in his film-directing debut. Bates is an embittered English teacher who, in one day, loses his wife to another teacher, discovers his male lover has left him for another man, and learns that a long-in-the-works manuscript by a female colleague that Butley has continually disparaged through the years has been accepted for publication -- while his own project lies dormant and unfinished.