Foreign Body is a 1986

1986 in film

-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 directed by Ronald Neame

Ronald Neame

Ronald Elwin Neame CBE, BSC was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.-Early career:...

. It stars Victor Banerjee

Victor Banerjee

Victor Banerjee is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi, Bengali and English language films. He has also appeared on a number of TV series on Indian television...

, Warren Mitchell

Warren Mitchell

Warren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...

, Denis Quilley

Denis Quilley

Denis Clifford Quilley OBE was an English theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre....

, and Amanda Donohoe

Amanda Donohoe

Amanda Donohoe is an English film and television actress. She is known for her 1980s relationship with popstar Adam Ant and her later work on television — including L.A. Law and Emmerdale — and her roles in successful movies including Liar, Liar.-Early life:Donohoe was born in London, the daughter...

. It was Neame's final film.

Plot

Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.

Cast

• Victor Banerjee
  Victor Banerjee
  Victor Banerjee is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi, Bengali and English language films. He has also appeared on a number of TV series on Indian television...
  
  ... Ram Das
• Warren Mitchell
  Warren Mitchell
  Warren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...
  
  ... I.Q. Patel
• Denis Quilley
  Denis Quilley
  Denis Clifford Quilley OBE was an English theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre....
  
  ... Prime Minister
• Amanda Donohoe
  Amanda Donohoe
  Amanda Donohoe is an English film and television actress. She is known for her 1980s relationship with popstar Adam Ant and her later work on television — including L.A. Law and Emmerdale — and her roles in successful movies including Liar, Liar.-Early life:Donohoe was born in London, the daughter...
  
  ... Susan Partridge
• Eve Ferret ... Norah
• Anna Massey
  Anna Massey
  Anna Raymond Massey, CBE was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac.-Early life:...
  
  ... Miss Furze
• Stratford Johns
  Stratford Johns
  Stratford Johns, born Alan Edgar Stratford-Johns, was a popular British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, created by Troy Kennedy-Martin.-Early life:Johns...
  
  ... Mr. Plumb
• Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard , born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.-Early life:...
  
  ... Dr. Stirry
• Jane Laurie ... Jo Masters (as Janet Laurie)
• Rashid Karapiet ... Mr. Nahan
• Sinitta Renay ... Indian girl
• Marc Zuber
  Marc Zuber
  Marc Zuber was an actor.Film appearances include: The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Wind and the Lion, The Sea Wolves, Shirley Valentine and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.Television credits include: The Onedin Line, Doomwatch, The Regiment, The Changes, Space: 1999,...
  
  ... Macho escort
• Janet Henfrey
  Janet Henfrey
  Janet E. A. Henfrey is a British stage and television actress. Best known in the USA for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun weekly on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the 1986 BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective...
  
  ... Landlady
• Ann Firbank ... Mrs. Plumb
• Timothy Bateson
  Timothy Bateson
  Timothy Dingwall Bateson was a British actor. The son of Dingwall Bateson, a solicitor later knighted, he was educated at Uppingham School and Wadham College, Oxford....
  
  ... Agent at Harley Street

Reception

Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman was a British painter, illustrator and author.The son of British portrait painter Julia Salaman and London linen draper and town councillor, Louis Goodman , he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy in London, where he was admitted as a student in 1851...

 of the New York Times didn't give the film a good review stating: