Taking Hugh for Granted

The Trials of Oz

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Order, order! All rise for your right honourable judges Oscar and Diggory as they put Hugh Grant's performance in the TV Movie 'The Trials of Oz' up on the stand. Your hosts discuss the context to the film as well as Hugh Grant's rock 'n' roll look, his slightly patchy Australian accent and his excellent performance.  

After releasing a particularly risque edition of the British underground magazine "Oz", Richard Neville (played by Hugh Grant) and his fellow editors are put on trial and charged with obscenity in what would become a famous case in 1971... 

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 4:50