Jack, at home again, talks with Elsie, his sister. He explains that he wants to leave in order to get away from “this house and everything”, and Elsie becomes angry with Jack — not because he wants to leave her, but because he could be killed at war. Kipling comes into the room, and Elsie [...]
Adapted from poet Blake Morrison’s best-selling memoir by screenwriter David Nicholls and directed for the screen by Anand Tucker, And When Did You Last See Your Father? explores — like its source material — the complex, manifold emotional layers of a father-and-son relationship as it shifts and evolves over the passing decades. At the film’s [...]
Having identified the dead boy as Davy McDonagh, the police try to determine why he and his brother Joe fought all those years ago and what exactly happened to Davy afterward. Having established a link between the McDonagh clan and the fight organizers, the solution to the case revolves around jealousy and the love of [...]
Emily Pritchard is Ros’s older daughter. Emily finds her mother’s new fame hard to deal with. Initially a student at the University of Sussex, she soon drops out. A magazine deal sees naked pictures of her projected onto the Houses of Parliament. And when her father admits his money laundering to Emily, it is a [...]
Lynda La Plante presents Trial & Retribution – Sins of the Father, a highly-charged and psychologically complex story which reveals tragic flaws and failures hidden beneath the familiar veneer of family relationships. Young Emily Harrogate, the clever daughter of an apparently happily married middle class couple, is found dead in the family home by her [...]
‘Violet Willett and her mother come to the hotel for a week, under the guise that mother is going birdwatching. Mother is quite a domineering character, so Violet has turned into quite a mousey, ‘hide-behind-the-glasses’ type of girl. I wanted to do a Marple because it’s something I’ve never really done before. Also there is [...]
Ada’s a ward of the court, with her fortunes tied up in the protracted case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. She’s an orphan – and is sent to live at Bleak House under the wing of John Jarndyce.
Her first major acting role Kitty is the fourth daughter, between Mary and Lydia. She seems happy in her role as Lydia’s sidekick; following wherever her sister leads. Because of this she has become almost as vain and stupid as Lydia. She is jealous of the attention Lydia gets as their mother’s favorite and therefore [...]