is later reunited with Lennon in the hopes of writing Lennon's biography. Lennon presents Freddie with his song "Mother", but loses patience with his father once again and leaves him. Lennon and Yoko move to New York City; as the final scene shows them getting on a plane and flying away, an onscreen text states that Lennon never returned. Cast The credited cast consists of the following: Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon Christopher Fairbank as Freddie Lennon Allan Corduner as Arthur Janov Andrew Scott as Paul McCartney Naoko Mori as Yoko Ono Michael Colgan as Derek Taylor Craig Cheetham as Ringo Starr Jack Morgan as George Harrison Claudie Blakley as Cynthia Lennon Rory Kinnear as Brian Epstein Adrian Bower as Pete Shotton Di Botcher as Dot Eileen O'Brien as Lil Debora Weston as Gloria Emerson Dave Legeno as Les Charlie Coulthard as Julian Lennon Ray MacAllan as Cabbie Jonathan Rigby as Cynthia's lawyer Annabel Leventon as Rich woman David Annen as Hospital consultant Patrick Drury as Apple accountant Helen Bradbury as John's PA Peter Lawman as Journalist 1 Roderick Smith as Journalist 2 Dylan Charles as Journalist 3 Production Naoko Mori has confessed that she got drunk to film all the nude scenes in this movie. "I can"t really remember much of that day. Maybe it was the half bottle of tequila. I've always sworn I'd never do nudity on screen." Reception According to Sam Wollaston of The Guardian, the film's "continual looking back over the shoulder to childhood, to his mother and father, takes Lennon Naked beyond the merely biographical: it gives it a depth and a Freudian quality"; putting aside minor issues with Eccleston's accent and his age (the 46-year-old actor was playing a man who is in his 20s for most of the film), Wollaston called Eccleston's work "a brilliant performance, in a brilliant film, because what Eccleston does get spot-on is the spirit of Lennon, with all his complications, contradictions and demons." Upon its US premiere Robert Lloyd, the television critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote "it doesn't much hang together as a drama and will be of interest mainly to Beatle completists and Eccleston fans, of whom there are, after all, more than a few....none of the actors are given enough space to build a solid character, either – even the formidable Yoko comes off as a bit of a simp. Minus any demonstration