Harnessing Peacocks ( Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks ) ( Harnessing Pea cocks )

Harnessing Peacocks (DVD) (*)

$22.99

Original Title: Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks
Alternate Title: Harnessing Pea cocks
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Cellan Jones

Written By:
Andrew Davies
Mary Wesley

Actors:
Serena Scott Thomas ..... Hebe Rutter
Peter Davison ..... Jim Huxtable
John Mills ..... Bernard Quigley
Nicholas Le Prevost ..... Mungo Duff
Renée Asherson ..... Louisa Fox
Jeremy Child ..... Julian Reeves
Brenda Bruce ..... Amy Tremayne
Tom Beasley ..... Silas Rutter
Richard Huw ..... Rory Grant
Abigail McKern ..... Hannah Krull
David Harewood ..... Terry
Dilys Hamlett ..... Lucy Duff
Marsha Fitzalan ..... Alison Duff
Delia Lindsay ..... Jennifer Reeves
Richard Mathews ..... Grandfather

Synopsis:

Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley's bestselling novel, Harnessing Peacocks is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies (The Way We Live Now, Bridget Jones' Diary). As a teenager, the beautiful Hebe was disowned by her family after becoming pregnant by a masked stranger during a fiesta in the Italian town of Lucca. Twelve years on, she has established herself in an unattractive terraced street in Penzance. Her official profession is part-time cook, catering to rich old ladies who value her personal attention. But Hebe has another source of income: she is a prostitute with a very limited set of wealthy male clients - her "peacocks". The income from her dual role enables her to send her illegitimate son, Silas, to boarding school. Then, a mysterious figure enters the network of discreetly intersecting relationships that exists between Hebe, her clients and their families. And he is certain that he recognises her...

A teen is shunned by her family after she gets pregnant by a mystery man, in this British made-for-television drama. Based on the book by Mary Welsey, Serena Scott Thomas stars as Hebe, a girl who gets involved in casual prostitution as a way to make ends meet for herself and her young son while living in Southern England.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 September, 2011.

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