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To the Lighthouse (1983)

Directed by Colin Gregg

Overview

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf’s novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.

Length 115 minutes

Actors

Kenneth Branagh | Rosemary Harris | Michael Gough | Suzanne Bertish | Lynsey Baxter | T. P. McKenna | David Parfitt | Simon Dutton | Craig Warnock | Nicola Wright | Pippa Guard