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Lennon Naked is a 2010 television biographical film focusing on the life of John Lennon between 1967 and 1971. It stars Christopher Eccleston as Lennon and was directed by Edmund Coulthard.

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Plot: In 1964, in the peak of Beatlemania, a reluctant John Lennon (Eccleston) is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein (Rory Kinnear) to meet Freddie Lennon (Christopher Fairbank), the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier, with the press in attendance. When they meet, John accuses him of abandoning him, but his father says that "he left it up to John." John and Brian quickly leave the meeting. The movie jumps then to 1967, after Brian Epstein has died. The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour. John is skeptical about the film, but Paul (Andrew Scott) convinces him to go through the idea. John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him. Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson, Julian. Sitting with his wife, John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour, while comparing his wife with Brigitte Bardot, who says he'll meet after he returns from India. John finds a letter addressed to him, with the word "Breathe". Later, after finding his father in a neighbor's house, Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline, with whom he wants to live.

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Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again, and then leaves, after telling him that he won't live with him anymore. After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles quickly return to London, and in a press conference they admit they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi. The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business - Apple Records. At night, before meeting Derek Taylor, John glimpses Yoko Ono from a window. John reveals Derek that she sends him letters -one of them, the "Breathe" one. Derek and John go to meet Brigitte Bardot, and in the car John tells Derek he sometimes thinks he is Jesus Christ. Derek tells that being John Lennon is enough to "walk on water". John is nervious of his meeting with Brigitte, and has a pill of LSD along with Derek. The next morning, John returns walking home, and during his drug-trip, he remembers the public's reaction at the "more popular than Jesus" statement he made two years before. He gets into his pool, and his wife Cynthia demands that he gets out. John says that he can't walk on water after all, and Cynthia and Julian leave. John stays with Pete Shotton in his mansion, and tells him he didn't do anything with Brigitte after all. He tells him to bring Yoko.

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