The Men's Room - 2-DVD Set

The Men's Room - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

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

Running Time:
250 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Antonia Bird

Written By:
Laura Lamson
Ann Oakley

Actors:
Harriet Walter ..... Charity Walton (5 episodes, 1991)
Bill Nighy ..... Prof. Mark Carleton
Amanda Redman ..... Sally (5 episodes, 1991)
Charlotte Cornwell ..... Margaret Lacey (5 episodes, 1991)
James Aubrey ..... Steve Kirkwood (5 episodes, 1991)
Bill Stewart ..... Dr. Ivan Swinhoe (5 episodes, 1991)
Cheryl Hall ..... Mavis McDonald (5 episodes, 1991)
Mel Martin ..... Jane Carleton (4 episodes, 1991)
David Ryall ..... Alan Pascoe
Tilly Vosburgh ..... Delia (4 episodes, 1991)
Patrick Drury ..... James Walton (3 episodes, 1991)
Ian Redford ..... Eric (3 episodes, 1991)
Philip Croskin ..... Mack MacKinnon (3 episodes, 1991)
Kate Hardie ..... Tessa Pascoe (2 episodes, 1991)
Jocelyn Barker ..... Rachel (2 episodes, 1991)
Tom Bradford ..... Tom (2 episodes, 1991)

Synopsis:

Charity Walton seems to have everything she could want: a husband, four children, a lovely house in London, and a successful career as a sociologist. Then she meets Mark Carleton, the incoming Head of the Sociology Department where she works: clever, handsome, and interested. Having devoted herself for years to her family, Charity finds herself surrendering to Carleton's charisma. Their sex is frequent, passionate and sometimes violent; their feelings for each other consuming and volatile. And Charity, having abandoned all she has known, realises that love isn't guaranteed. Mark is energetically unfaithful, a serial womaniser, and the torturous disintegration of their life together is both comical and poignantly sad. This hard-hitting five-part serial, set during the Thatcher years, launched Bill Nighy's career.

Based on a novel by Ann Oakley, the British miniseries The Men's Room starred Harriet Walter as officer worker Charity Walton. Despite her status as wife and mother, Charity entered into a romantic liaison with a coworker named Mark Carleton (Bill Nighy). The ensuing consequences not only exacted a great emotional toll on Charity, her husband, her lover, and his wife, but also exposed the hypocrisies of the good-old-boy office mentality. The five 50-minute episodes of The Men's Room were telecast by BBC2 in 1991.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 October, 2013.