Roger & Val Have Just Got In - Season 1 ( Roger & Val Have Just Got In - Season One ) ( Roger and Val Have Just Got In )

Roger & Val Have Just Got In - Season 1 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Roger & Val Have Just Got In - Season One
Alternate Title: Roger and Val Have Just Got In
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
176 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jamie Rafn

Written By:
Beth Kilcoyne
Emma Kilcoyne

Actors:
Alfred Molina ..... Roger Stephenson (6 episodes, 2010)
Dawn French ..... Val Stephenson (6 episodes, 2010)

Synopsis:

Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2) and Dawn French (The Vicar of Dibley) star as the eponymous Roger and Val Stevenson, a middle aged married couple who we see during their first half hour after work once they walk through the front door. This touching, warm-hearted and bittersweet comedy examines the seemingly trivial domestic trials and tribulations faced by the couple, from finding a missing vacuum cleaner guarantee, to working out how to fit home-made lasagne into the already full fridge. Roger And Val explores the 'fun in the mundanity' of domestic life whilst also uncovering the complicated nature of relationships - by turns poignant, thought provoking and hilarious, you'll be transfixed by the subtle developments and revelations as we follow them over several weeks of their life together.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: The Guarantee
Original Air Date-6 August 2010
Roger Stephenson, a botanist at the local winter gardens,and his wife Val,who teaches domestic science,are a long-married couple,whose children have flown the nest. When the Hoover breaks down they search for the guarantee in the 'big drawer' in the garage,finding an old door knocker and various holiday souvenirs. They discuss the past and plan the future. Val locates the guarantee but,inexplicably,tears it up,which Roger sees as a gesture of independence. For all that he Sellotapes it back together again.
Season 1, Episode 2: The Unglamorous Row
Original Air Date-13 August 2010
Val comes in to find Roger in a bad mood. She has put some fish fingers and frozen peas in the conservatory fridge,which he uses to store his bonsai seeds. She counters by claiming that the kitchen fridge is often over-loaded and a row ensues,in which she terms him pompous. He admits that he is grumpy as the winter gardens have two new water-voles who do not get on and staff have named them after him and his boss Phil. Val wonders why their rows are always over mundane matters and recalls a couple they know who argue about 'glamorous' things.Roger tells her that this couple are now facing bankruptcy so they are better off as they are. He cooks the fish fingers for her.
Season 1, Episode 3: The Dining Room Curtains
Original Air Date-20 August 2010
Roger has had another row with Phil and is not hungry. Still,Val had her pupils wash their dining room curtains for her,even though another teacher disapproved and may grass her up.Now all she and Roger have to do is re-hang them but both are tired. Furthermore the plants are growing faster with no curtains to shut out the light but it's a job that must be done. When Val appears to have brought in a bag of noodles instead of curtain hooks they reckon they can put it off until tomorrow and watch 'Grizzly Man' on DVD. Then Val finds the curtain hooks . . . but the moment has gone.
Season 1, Episode 4: Be Our Guest
Original Air Date-27 August 2010
Weary after visiting his terminally ill father in hospital,Roger can do without the news that concerned cousin Cathy and her controlling husband Bob are coming to stay but he helps Val prepare the spare room. As they work he complains about Phil at the winter garden and she notes that the bedroom window would make an ideal emergency exit. It becomes apparent that the room was once a nursery for a child who died and,as they eat their lasagne,Roger fails to cheer up a tearful Val.
Season 1, Episode 5: Reply All
Original Air Date-3 September 2010
Roger's father has died and,seeking the advice of the bereavement counsellor he met after the death of his son eighteen years earlier,Roger has come up with a means of solace. It takes the form of writing an idealized self-image,an account of life as he would like it to be. Unfortunately it also expresses the low opinions he has of his work colleagues,to whom he has accidentally emailed it. Val comes up with an excuse to provide damage limitation and sends it off but Roger has all weekend to wait before learning if he will be fired. He also rows with Val,who storms out. Suggesting she was having an affair with an old flame,Ian,now in New Zealand,was not a good idea.
Season 1, Episode 6: The Valerie Step
Original Air Date-10 September 2010
Val returns to the house,mainly to get changed for the school centenary dance,where she will be escorted by old flame Ian from New Zealand. This makes Roger childish and bitter,ranting against all things New Zealander and threatening to destroy his plants. Val cooks him a meal and is prepared to leave - until he shows her the shrine he has built to their marriage and tells her of his sacking, which they then resolve to fight together.

Written by Emma and Beth Kilcoyne, ROGER AND VAL HAVE JUST GOT IN is the delightful comedy series starring Dawn French (THE VICAR OF DIBLEY) and ALFRED MOLINA (SPIDER-MAN 2) stars as a married couple who discover long buried reawakened emotions for one another.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 25 November, 2010.

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