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Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.Read moreLess
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
The story
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Cast & crew
Jeanne MoreauLili
Joan PlowrightMrs. Monro
Julie WaltersMonica
Lena HeadeyMargaret
David Threlfall
Maggie SteedMrs Raffald
John WoodRobert
Gwyneth StrongCynthia
Roger Lloyd PackDerek
Catherine SchellMarie-Claire
Tommy DugganFather O'FlynnExplore the crew
- Director
- Waris Hussein
- Editor
- Ken Pierce
- Director of Photography
- Rex Maidment
- Producer
- Norma Heyman
- Writer
- Martin Sherman
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Myers