The Politician's Husband

The Politician's Husband (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
172 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Simon Cellan Jones

Written By:
Paula Milne

Actors:
Roger Allam ..... Marcus Brock (3 episodes, 2013)
June Bailey ..... Pensioner 1 (3 episodes, 2013)
Tim Bentinck ..... Freddy Seabourn / ... (3 episodes, 2013)
Chipo Chung ..... Lian Hooper (3 episodes, 2013)
Lee Nicholas Harris ..... TV cameraman (3 episodes, 2013)
Lucy Hutchinson ..... Ruby Hoynes (3 episodes, 2013)
Harmage Singh Kalirai ..... Muslim Constituent / ... (3 episodes, 2013)
Oscar Kennedy ..... Noah Hoynes (3 episodes, 2013)
Sylvestra Le Touzel ..... Diane (3 episodes, 2013)
Kate Maravan ..... Reporter / ... (3 episodes, 2013)
Anamaria Marinca ..... Dita Kowalski (3 episodes, 2013)
Matthew David McCarthy ..... MP / ... (3 episodes, 2013)
Luke Neal ..... Drew Bailey (3 episodes, 2013)
Malcolm Scates ..... Kenny Moss (3 episodes, 2013)
Jack Shepherd ..... Joe Hoynes (3 episodes, 2013)
Ed Stoppard ..... Bruce Babbish (3 episodes, 2013)
David Tennant ..... Aiden Hoynes (3 episodes, 2013)
Emily Watson ..... Freya Hoynes (3 episodes, 2013)
James Weber Brown ..... Reporter / ... (3 episodes, 2013)
Clare Welch ..... Pensioner 2 (3 episodes, 2013)
Sarah Woodward ..... Undercover Reporter 1 / ... (3 episodes, 2013)
Simon Chandler ..... Cliff Lyman (2 episodes, 2013)
Chris Cowlin ..... Civil Servant (2 episodes, 2013)
David Shelley ..... Undercover Reporter (2 episodes, 2013)
Scott Stevenson ..... Paparazzi (2 episodes, 2013)
Kirsty Wark ..... Herself (2 episodes, 2013)

Synopsis:

Aiden Hoynes (Tennant) And Freya Hoynes (Watson) are the golden couple of British politics. Aiden is a senior cabinet minister tipped for the top and Freya a junior minister who has had to put her own career on hold for the sake of husband's and to spend more time at home raising their young children. When Aiden suffers a humiliating political betrayal by his best friend and fellow cabinet minister BRUCE BABBISH (ED STOPPARD) Aiden finds himself consigned to the back benches and a life of political obscurity. But it's when Freya is offered a senior cabinet post herself that the humiliation intensifies as Aiden struggles to deal with his wife's new found success. Driven by a desire to avenge his downfall and increasingly threatened by his wife's meteoric rise, Aiden gambles it all in this gripping tale of political intrigue and shifting sexual politics within a marriage.

Season 1
Episode #1.1 S1, Ep1 Apr. 25, 2013
Government minister Aiden Hoynes launches an attack on the prime minister's immigration policy and makes a leadership bid but is forced to resign after it is thwarted by fellow minister Bruce Babbish. The resignation prompts a cabinet reshuffle in which Aiden's supportive wife Freya,also a politician,is offered the ministry of work and pensions. Aiden urges her to accept so that she can carry on challenging the immigration policy,surrounding her with his own former staff. Freya does indeed accept whilst Aiden becomes a house husband,driving their autistic son Noah to ...
Episode #1.2 S1, Ep2 May 2, 2013
Drunk and angry that Freya has not done as he wanted and is enjoying her own sense of power Aiden forces himself on her sexually. Next day he apologizes but still asks her staff to keep him informed on her movements and decisions. He starts a Tweet to discredit Bannish and attempts to get onto a select committee to influence government policy but Bannish makes sure he is not accepted. The Hoynes present as a happy couple to a journalist interviewing them but genuinely unite after a swimming pool scare with Noah,Aiden's father also urging him not to be vindictive. Dita...
Episode #1.3 S1, Ep3 May 9, 2013
The marriage is put under pressure when Dita tells the newspapers that she had sex with Aiden and Noah lashes out at school in reaction to the news. Nonetheless Freya puts up a united front with her husband and spurns Babbish's advances when they are working late together. Aiden however is suspicious and concocts a plan which will make it seem as if both are taking bribes though only Babbish is tarnished by it and has to resign. Freya is angry that Aiden could have thought so little of her and,having supported him after his father's death,asks him to leave the house. ...

Aiden Hoynes is a senior cabinet minister who has always put his career before family, with the support of Freya, his devoted wife and mother to their two young children. But when Freya's own political career takes off and threatens to overshadow his, Aiden's life is thrown into chaos. As his political career comes to a standstill, and with his marriage turned upset down, Aiden takes increasing risks in his quest for power.

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

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