Yearning to watch 'Waiting for Alan' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Richard Woolley-directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.
Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Waiting for Alan' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'Waiting for Alan' right now, here are some finer points about the flick.
Released , 'Waiting for Alan' stars Anthony Schaeffer, Joyce Kennedy, Carolyn Pickles The movie has a runtime of about 42 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from well-known users.
Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "WAITING FOR ALAN is about a woman whose marriage is dead. Trapped in the rich but sterile environment of a lavishly appointed country house, MARCIA is a microcosm of society – a victim of, and partner in, someone else's routine. It’s not the housework or the cooking (MRS BETTS looks after those), but the daily monotony of waiting for ALAN – her newspaper-reading, TV watching husband. To him, she's just the emotional central heating switched on and off in return for paying the bills and expected to operate as smoothly and regularly as the washing-up machine or the gardener. But MARCIA has waited long enough… WAITING FOR ALAN is a humorous but critical 'tale of the unexpected' (and expected) in classical, three-movement sonata form. It was screened at least twice on Channel Four television in the late eighties and both times received a very positive audience response as well as praise from weekly pre-viewers in the newspapers" .
