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Wives and Daughters (1999)
Directed by Nicholas Renton
Overview
Elizabeth Gaskell’s enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who wrote the scripts for such Masterpiece Theatre classics as A Rather English Marriage, Moll Flanders, the House of Cards trilogy, and Middlemarch, found Wives and Daughters to be perfect costume-drama material. It posed a rather interesting problem: Gaskell died just before completing the book. She was obviously aiming at a happy ending, and Davies has supplied the lost denouement with surprise and style.
Length 301 minutes
Actors
Penelope Wilton | Tom Hollander | Michael Gambon | Rosamund Pike | Francesca Annis | Iain Glen | Keeley Hawes | Justine Waddell | Richard Coyle | Jemima Rooper | Richard Dempsey | Bill Paterson | Deborah Findlay | Anthony Howell | Barbara Flynn | Anna Maguire | Elizabeth Spriggs