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The Summer House (1993)
Directed by Waris Hussein
Overview
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother’s friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Length 79 minutes
Actors
Jeanne Moreau | Joan Plowright | Lena Headey | Julie Walters | David Threlfall | Catherine Schell | John Wood | Padraig O'Loinsigh | Britta Smith | Annabel Burton | David Gant | Roger Lloyd-Pack