Bed Among the Lentils
Bed Among the Lentils
1988, English. Directed by Stuart Burge & Alan Bennett.
Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife who has to travel into Leeds to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shop keeper, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, as she sees him, vainly insensitive husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affair with a nearby grocer, Ramesh Ramesh, discovering something about herself and God in the process.
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- 0h 49m
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- Language
- English
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- 3 May 1988
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Alan Bennett
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Bed Among the Lentils runs 49 minutes (0h 49m).
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Bed Among the Lentils isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 May 1988. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Bed Among the Lentils?
Bed Among the Lentils (1988) was directed by Stuart Burge and Alan Bennett.