Shuttlecock

Shuttlecock is a 1993 French-British thriller film directed by Andrew Piddington and starring Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson and Kenneth Haigh. It is based on the 1981 novel Shuttlecock by Graham Swift. Plot Major James Prentis (Alan Bates) is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal, where he eventually decides to publish his memoirs 20 years after the war. His son, John (Lambert Wilson), becomes increasingly alarmed with the enigmatic Dr. Quinn (Kenneth Haigh), the director of the institution, and concludes after reading his father's memoirs that Quinn is responsible for his father's mental decline. Cast Alan Bates as Major James Prentis VC Lambert Wilson as John Prentis Kenneth Haigh as Dr. Quinn Jill Meager as Marian Prentis John Cassady as Eddie Arthur Cox as Fizz / Fox David Ryall as Pound Gregory Chisholm as Martin Prentis Beatrice Buchholz as Beatrice Carnot Jacqui Sedlar as Jenny Dominic Chesterton as Peter Prentis João Perry as Eric Luísa Barbosa as Ana