Exile - Season 1 ( Exile ) ( Exile - Season One )

Exile - Season 1 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Exile
Alternate Title: Exile - Season One
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
180 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Alexander

Written By:
Paul Abbott
Daniel Brocklehurst

Actors:
John Simm ..... Tom Ronstadt
Jim Broadbent ..... Sam Ronstadt
Olivia Colman ..... Nancy Ronstadt (3 episodes, 2011)
Nico Mirallegro ..... Teenage Tom (3 episodes, 2011)
Daryl Fishwick ..... Wendy (3 episodes, 2011)
Claire Goose ..... Mandy (3 episodes, 2011)
Shaun Dooley ..... Mike Eldridge (3 episodes, 2011)
Timothy West ..... Metzler (2 episodes, 2011)
Sarah Jayne Dunn ..... Metzler's PA (2 episodes, 2011)
Alex Clayton ..... Young Tom (2 episodes, 2011)
Sarah Parks ..... Wendy's Partner (2 episodes, 2011)

Synopsis:

Tom Ronstadt (John Simm) is a successful London journalist who, with his career and life falling apart, returns to his home town in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years. He finds his father Sam (Jim Broadbent), who Tom idolised as a child, in the grip of Alzheimer's - a once formidable man now being cared for by his sister Nancy (Olivia Coleman). Over the three episodes Tom unravels the mystery linked to his childhood that drove him away all those years ago. As his frustrations grow with his father's failure to remember the past, he persists unaware that he is unearthing a devastating crime that will reveal secrets he could never have imagined.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1
Original Air Date-1 May 2011
Sacked after an affair with the boss's wife magazine writer Tom Ronstadt returns from London to Bacup where his sister Nancy is caring for their father Sam,a former journalist,now suffering from Alzheimer's.Forced to stay and help Nancy, Tom finds it impossible to communicate with a father with whom,even in better days,there was plainly friction.Tom goes for a drink with old school friend Mike Eldridge,who is unaware that Tom slept with his wife Mandy,after picking her up in the pub where she works. Tom tells him he left home as a youngster when his father severely attacked him for opening a file he was working on,marked' Metzler'. Metzler is now head of the local council. Nancy and Tom discover that huge sums of money have been paid into Sam's account and it would seem that Metzler was trying to bribe him to keep a secret. Tom's investigations are interrupted when Mike,learning of his one night stand with Mandy,punches him.
Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2
Original Air Date-1 May 2011
Tom learns from a newspaper archive that Metzler was a doctor at Greenlake psychiatric hospital in the 1970s. He seeks out Wendy Smith,his father's former secretary who is cagey but tells him that J. Cleaver,who has paid the money into Sam's account,was probably a patient at the hospital. Hoping that familiar faces may jog his memory Tom takes his father to his old paper's charity dinner where Sam is cordial to Metzler but Richard,a colleague of Sam's,confirms to Tom that his father was indeed investigating Metzler for malpractice. When Sam gave up Richard assumed it was for lack of evidence. Tom resumes his relationship with Mandy after Mike moves out of the house and,after his car has been rammed and two policemen threatened him to return to London he receives an envelope. The document inside confirms that Tom's real surname is Cleaver.
Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3
Original Air Date-1 May 2011
After Tom has shown Nancy his discovery they return to see Wendy,who sent the envelope. She reveals that Sam and his wife Edith,believing themselves unable to have children,adopted Tom. The siblings manage to get Sam to say that Metzler gave them a baby but Mandy's mother,a former nurse at Greenlake,believes that a ward orderly named Ricky Tulse,not Metzler,was the truly sinister figure who encouraged vulnerable patients to have sex whilst he watched. Tom tracks down Tulse,dying of cancer,who admits,before killing himself,that he is Tom's father,having raped his mother. He claims that Metzler was aware that patients were being sexually abused and their babies sold - Metzler being the man who paid Sam the money. Tom now has his evidence to bring down Metzler,do what is best for Sam and start a new life back home with Mandy and Nancy,following his exile.

A father and son story, with a thriller motor. It explores a mystery from the past with a brutal and shocking revelation.

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