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Peter's Friends (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Goya Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Kenneth Branagh

Written By:
Martin Bergmann
Rita Rudner

Actors:
Hugh Laurie ..... Roger Charleston
Kenneth Branagh ..... Andrew Benson
Stephen Fry ..... Peter Morton
Alphonsia Emmanuel ..... Sarah Johnson
Emma Thompson ..... Maggie Chester
Imelda Staunton ..... Mary Charleston
Richard Briers ..... Lord Morton (Peter's Father)
Phyllida Law ..... Vera (Housekeeper), Paul's Mom
Alex Scott ..... Paul (age 7)
Edward Jewesbury ..... Mr. Gooch, Peter's Solicitor
Hetta Charnley ..... Carol's fan at Airport
Rita Rudner ..... Carol Benson, 'Who's in the Kitchen'
Bill Parfitt ..... Baby Ben Charleston
Ruby May Musto ..... Baby Ben Charleston
Ann Davies ..... Brenda

Synopsis:

This comedy drama, a sort of British version of The Big Chill (1983), was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton (Stephen Fry), who's invited them there for a reunion. Among the guests are Andrew (Branagh), who has married Carol (Rita Rudner), the star of the American situation comedy he writes; lonely Maggie (Emma Thompson), who thinks she may be in love with Peter; Roger (Hugh Laurie) and Mary (Imelda Staunton), a couple in advertising who have lost a child; and single Sarah (Alphonsia Emmanuel), who's always attracted to the wrong men, including her latest boyfriend, the married Brian (Tony Slattery). Also on hand is Vera (Phyllida Law, the real-life mother of Thompson), a housekeeper who has protectively watched over Peter since childhood. Over the course of the weekend, various jealousies and fears are revealed between joyous feasts, but a startling, tragic announcement from Peter puts everyone's petty dramas into proper perspective. American stand-up comedienne Rudner wrote the screenplay with her husband, (Martin Bergmann).

Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Ten years later, Peter inherits a large estate from his father, and invites the rest of the gang to spend New Year's holiday with him. Many changes have taken place in the lives of all the friends assembled, but Peter has a secret that will shock them all.

Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Years Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 June, 2007.

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