Naked

 

Naked 1993

·        Director: Mike Leigh

·        Cast: David Thewliss, Leslie Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, Ewan Bremner

·        Why? The cast. Mike Leigh

·        Seen: Once before. Now 24 September 2025 

Considered by many to be Mike Leigh’s masterpiece and David Thewliss’s best role.

Not by me. It’s too grim. Johnny (Thewliss) is a philosophy spouting drifter, cruel, violent, abusive. He's a loser, everyone is a loser. There’s probably a point to it all but it’s too rambling and talky for me. Leigh’s other films are so much sharper.

Great cast though. 

2 ½ * of 5