SOUTH RIDING

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• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Andrew Davies' (Bleak House, Little Dorrit) sparkling adaptation of Winfred Holtby's acclaimed novel is insightful, warm and full of memorable characters.; ; South Riding tells a fraught love story and paints a panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the long aftermath of the First World War. In depression-hit Thirties Britain, Sarah Burton (Anna Maxwell Martin, Bleak House) returns from London to her Yorkshire hometown to take up the post of headmistress at a struggling girls' school. Full of ambition, she is determined to create a great school and inspire her girls. As Sarah struggles against the crippling poverty of the district, she meets those at the heart of the local community: her brilliant but poor student, Lydia Holly' the county's first woman Alderman, Mrs. Beddows, whose sensible demeanor belies a girlish heart; the noble but ludicrous Methodist preacher, Councilor Huggins; Sarah's socialist suitor, Joe Astell; and the proud, haunted and almost ruined landowner, Robert Carne - a man Sarah finds herself drawn towards even though he stands for everything she detests.; ; Engrossing and entertaining, South Riding vividly brings to life a rural community on the brink of change.;
• Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Penelope Wilton, Katherine McGolpin, Charlie Clark, Douglas Henshall, Ian Bartholomew, Shaun Dooley, Peter Firth, John Henshaw, Lydia Wilson, Daniel West, Brid Brennan, Jennifer Hennessy, Marie Critchley, Alexandra Pearson, Penny Layden, Janine Mellor, Renny Krupinski, John-Paul Hurley, Diarmuid Lawrence
• Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
• Runtime: 1:57
• Company: Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie