![]() But he hasn’t got a BBC license, which was required at the time. ![]() Seems he has a television in the family flat. A couple of inspectors come around to his house. Richard Bean and Clive Coleman’s script introduces us to Kempton in court for the theft, and then goes six months back to present a portrait of the man’s eccentric sense of activism. Much to his wife Dorothy’s consternation, one of his subjects is the death of their teen daughter. (First he’s a cab driver, then pushing loaves about at a bread factory.) He’s also an amateur playwright. Jim Broadbent, clearly delighted with his meaty role, plays Kempton Bunton, an enlightened working man in Newcastle on Tyme whose detailed and fervent beliefs concerning the rights of the lower classes and the elderly consistently get him fired from whatever job he manages to procure. The movie is based on a true, and indeed peculiar caper: the 1961 theft from the National Gallery of a Goya portrait, painted around 1812, of the Duke of Wellington.
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