Wetherby (1985) ( Wether by )

Wetherby (1985) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Wether by
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Hare

Written By:
David Hare

Actors:
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Jean Travers
Ian Holm ..... Stanley Pilborough
Judi Dench ..... Marcia Pilborough
Stuart Wilson ..... Mike Langdon
Tim McInnerny ..... John Morgan
Suzanna Hamilton ..... Karen Creasy
Tom Wilkinson ..... Roger Braithwaite
Marjorie Yates ..... Verity Braithwaite
Katy Behean ..... Young Marcia
Ted Beyer ..... Police Sergeant
Patrick Blackwell ..... Derek
Ian Bleasdale ..... Neurotic Teacher
Howard Crossley ..... Policeman
Penny Downie ..... Chrissie
David Foreman ..... Young Malay

Synopsis:

In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party but is really about something else. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is an old-maid schoolmarm who has lived in Wetherby, a small town in northeastern Yorkshire, all of her life. She is still haunted by memories of a passionate love affair with a young man who was later murdered while on military duty in Malaysia nearly 35 years ago in the '50s. One evening, Jean invites a group of friends over for dinner; the group is comprised of two couples, one of which spends the time sniping at each other. A young man, John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is also in the dinner party. Jean thinks he was brought along by one of the couples; the couples, in turn, believe he was invited by Jean -- in short, he is a total stranger that everyone assumes is a friend of someone there. As the evening progresses, political topics of the moment are brought up and chewed over; Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, and other notables of the era are discussed, and various comments are made on the laziness of today's youth. The dinner party ends, and the next day John Morgan comes back to visit Jean. While she is in the midst of preparing tea for them both, he takes out a gun and kills himself. The shock waves from his senseless act later reverberate among the dinner-party guests, as the police investigator tries to piece together the man's background and the dinner party itself. Questions are raised about his motives, and viewers see the dinner party again, moment by moment, in an entirely new light.

A lonely Yorkshire schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave), hosts a dinner party for her friends at her cottage in Wetherby. A stranger, John Morgan (Tim McInnerny), arrives at the party with Marcia and Stanley Pilborough (Judi Dench and Ian Holm). Unexpectedly, he returns the next day and suddenly commits suicide in front of Jean. A policeman arrives to investigate the mysterious death, while Jean's mind turns back to memories of a passionate love affair with tragic consequences earlier in her life. In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party, but is really about something else.

Drama. When a mysterious young man commits suicide at the house of schoolteacher Jean Travers, the event plunges her into reminiscence and remorse involving a doomed wartime romance.

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