A Month in the Country ( 1987 )

A Month in the Country ( 1987 ) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Pat O'Connor

Written By:
J.L. Carr
Simon Gray

Actors:
Colin Firth ..... Tom Birkin
John Atkinsons ..... Old Man on Train
Jim Carter ..... Ellerbeck
Patrick Malahide ..... Reverend Keach
Kenneth Branagh ..... James Moon
Richard Vernon ..... Colonel Hebron
Tim Barker ..... Mossop
Vicki Arundale ..... Kathy Ellerbeck
Martin O'Neil ..... Edgar Ellerbeck
Natasha Richardson ..... Alice Keach
Tony Haygarth ..... Douthwaite
Eileen O'Brien ..... Mrs. Ellerbeck
Elizabeth Anson ..... Lucy Sykes
Barbara Marten ..... Mrs. Sykes
Kenneth Kitson ..... Mr. Sykes

Synopsis:

Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Rev. Mr. Keach tells WWI veteran Tom Birken who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier?

Natasha Richardson plays a vicar's wife in this pastoral period piece, in which a starving artist (Colin Firth, in his first lead role) arrives in a small town in rural England after World War I to help restore a Medieval mural in a local church. Sparks fly between the artist and the preacher's wife, although the attraction is left entirely unspoken. It was an impressively restrained performance by the young film actress.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 18 December, 2016.