COTTON MARY (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Cotton Mary, a hospital aide and moralizing Anglophile who claims her father was a British officer, takes over the infant's care and, without a word to the mother, takes the baby daily to her sister to nurse. Mary moves into the English household, taking over more and more duties as she plays on the mother's fatigue and lack of spousal counsel: in effect, Mary colonizes the English household while she pilfers its stores and tells tall tales to her own family. For how long can Mary sustain her rule before the Englishwoman stands on her own feet?; ; From Academy Award-winning Merchant Ivory Productions, creators of A Room With A View, Howards End and The Remains Of The Day comes Cotton Mary, the captivating story of an Anglo-Indian woman haunted by the specter of colonialism. The sensual tale unfolds with Madhur Jaffrey playing a military nurse desperate to be a part of the British upperclass of 1954 India. When a chance encounter with the naïve Lily Macintosh, played by Greta Scacchi, lets her into this exclusive and privileged world, she finds that staying in this world is even more difficult than getting there. Set against the spectacular backdrop of the exotic and lush South Indian coastline, Cotton Mary takes you on one woman's search to find her place at any cost and how far she will go to keep herself there once she has arrived. ;
• Cast: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Sarah Badel, Riju Bajaj, Gerson Da Cunha, Joanna David, Neena Gupta, Sakina Jaffrey, Gemma Jones, Firdausi Jussawalla, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Nadira, Prayag Raj, Captain Raju, Shobha Vijay, Veerendra Saxena, Surekha Sikri, Laura Lumley, Matteo Piero Mantegazza, Olivia Caesar, Kukku Parameshwaram, Beena Manoj, Maggie Arthasery, Arshia Rafique, Vinnie D'Souza, Chinappa, Ashok Koshy, Shirly Somasundaram, Jaya George, Philip Tabor, Luke Jones, Susan Malick, Hamza, Poornima Mohan, Caroline Charlety, Ranjani Haridas, Gayatri Krishnan, Txuku Iriarte Solana, Ismail Merchant, Alexandra Viets
• Director: Ismail Merchant
• Runtime: 2:04
• Company: Universal Studios
• Media Format: Movie