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In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Overview
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister’s local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a ‘profit sharing’ basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
Length 99 minutes
Actors
Michael Maloney | Richard Briers | Joan Collins | Nicholas Farrell | Julia Sawalha | Celia Imrie | John Sessions | Jennifer Saunders | Gerard Horan | Mark Hadfield | Hetta Charnley | Adrian Scarborough | Brian Pettifer | Patrick Doyle | Shaun Prendergast | Allie Byrne | Katy Carmichael | Ann Davies | James D. White | Robert Hines | Edward Jewesbury | Carol Starks | Jessica Manley