The Ploughman's Lunch

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For the type of meal, see Ploughman's lunch.

The Ploughman's Lunch is a 1983 "issues" film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris.

Its subtext, according to the BFI, is "the way countries and people re-write their own history to suit the needs of the present"; the film's title is a metaphor for the rewriting said to have occurred in the aftermath of the Falklands War.

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Works by Ian McEwan
Novels:

The Cement Garden (1978) • The Comfort of Strangers (1981) • The Child in Time (1987) • The Innocent (1990) • Black Dogs (1992) • Enduring Love (1997) • Amsterdam (1998) • Atonement (2001) • Saturday (2005) • On Chesil Beach (2007)
Story collections:
Children's novels:
Rose Blanche (1985) • The Daydreamer (1994)
Screenplays:

The Ploughman's Lunch (1985) • Sour Sweet (1989) • The Good Son (1993)
Plays:
The Imitation Game (1981)
Opera libretto:
Or Shall We Die? (1986) For You (2008 forthcoming)
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