White Heat - 2-DVD Set

White Heat - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
343 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Alexander

Written By:
Paula Milne

Actors:
MyAnna Buring ..... Lilly (6 episodes, 2012)
Sam Claflin ..... Jack
Lindsay Duncan ..... Lilly (Present Day) (6 episodes, 2012)
Claire Foy ..... Charlotte (6 episodes, 2012)
Tamsin Greig ..... Beth (6 episodes, 2012)
Jessica Gunning ..... Orla (6 episodes, 2012)
David Gyasi ..... Victor (6 episodes, 2012)
Lee Ingleby ..... Alan
Jeremy Northam ..... Edward
Hugh Quarshie ..... Victor (Present Day) (6 episodes, 2012)
Reece Ritchie ..... Jay
Juliet Stevenson ..... Charlotte (Present Day) (6 episodes, 2012)
Paul Copley ..... Alan (Present Day)
Karen Henthorn ..... Val (3 episodes, 2012)
Richard Lintern ..... Miles (3 episodes, 2012)
Geoffrey Leesley ..... Frank (3 episodes, 2012)
Julian Barratt ..... Derek Bowden (2 episodes, 2012)
Ramon Tikaram ..... Jay (Present Day) (2 episodes, 2012)
Euan Macnaughton ..... Leo (2 episodes, 2012)
Jadran Malkovich ..... Jay's Boyfriend / ... (2 episodes, 2012)

Synopsis:

All six episodes of the drama following a group of seven friends over the course of four decades. In 1965, students Jack (Sam Claflin), Charlotte (Claire Foy), Lilly (MyAnna Buring), Jay (Reece Ritchie), Alan (Lee Ingleby), Victor (David Gyasi) and Orla (Jessica Gunning) meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.

Season 1
The Past Is a Foreign Country
S1, Ep1 Mar. 8, 2012
Charlotte Pugh returns for a will-reading to the house where she lived as a student. She recalls how she first arrived as a tenant in 1965 with art student Lilly, earnest Geordie Alan, homely Orla, Jamaican immigrant Victor and closet gay Jay. Alan is sure that Jack, the loud-mouthed son of the house owner and technically the landlord, has chosen them as a social experiment as they represent different types. Lilly's parents want her to return home to run a family shop and she is given confidence by Alan after she refuses whilst Orla is rarely in and confides in Jay

Eve of Destruction
S1, Ep2 Mar. 15, 2012
1967:- Jack has another confrontation with his father Edward,angry that the youngster is taking soft drugs and threatening to withdraw financial support on his graduation. Jack sleeps with Lilly whilst Charlotte is visiting her parents,who announce their decision to divorce. Left alone in the house her mother sets fire to it and is taken to a mental hospital where Charlotte,aware of Jack's deceit,visits and tells her that women do not need men. Lilly inevitably becomes pregnant and Orla arranges the abortion. Alan defends Victor against racists but still makes gay ...

The Dark Side of the Moon
S1, Ep3 Mar. 22, 2012
1973:- Alan returns from working on computers in America. Victor has moved out of the house but returns as therapist Orla cooks a meal for artist Lilly,academic Charlotte,medic Jay and Jack,who is now a TUC employee. Visiting his dying grandfather Jack initially refuses his father's request to use his position to help get Edward ahead in politics but eventually gives him a leaked copy of the Social Contract. Charlotte,having been arrested for disrupting the Miss World contest and feeling powerless to stop her mother's mental decline,dumps Jack whilst Orla feels guilty...

The Personal is Political
S1, Ep4 Mar. 29, 2012
Jack,working for left wing journal the Tribune,scoffs when BBC World Service employee Charlotte sees professional hope for women following Margaret Thatcher's win at the 1979 elections. They argue and again Victor supports her. Orla takes pity on Aasif,a homeless Afghani boy and brings him home to stay until she can speak to the authorities on his behalf. Jack has decided to stand as a Labour candidate and feels this will threaten his political chances but the boy runs off having robbed the household. Poor Orla is equally unsuccessful in persuading Jay to come out to ...

The Eye of the Needle
S1, Ep5 Apr. 5, 2012
Sinking more and more into self pity, Jack has become a heroin addict though he refuses to go into rehab so Orla organizes the others into acting as a roster of minders to force him to go cold turkey. Strangely enough, it is his father who actually provides the cure, leading Jack to profess the error of his wasted life though he is kissed better by Charlotte. Lilly discovers that, following her abortion, she has been left barren. Alan is far more understanding about this than he is over the notion of her plans to start her own business. Charlotte, meanwhile, pursues ...

The Sea of Trees
S1, Ep6 Apr. 12, 2012
In 1990 Lilly and Alan,both successful in business,buy her parents a house, Jay is HIV positive but with every chance of surviving and Charlotte,her mother dead,is living with Victor and daughter Emma,though it becomes clear that the real father is Jack,married to another and back in politics.Orla,as ever,does very little except play den mother to the others when they all meet up. In 2012 the couples have split,Jack is now a peer of the realm and the identity of the deceased,who bought the flat and bequeathed it to the others,is revealed.

A story about a group of seven London-based students from 1965 to the present day.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 July, 2012.

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