WIVES & DAUGHTERS

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 'More than almost any book I know, this neglected masterpiece tells us what it feels likeito be alive.' -Andrew Davies, Screenwriter of Wives And Daughters; ; From the screenwriter and producer of Pride And Prejudice comes a deliciously engaging costume drama in the tradition of Jane Austen. Set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers, the story centers around a 17-year-old Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a respected country doctor. The well-ordered world of Molly's childhood is soon to be complicated by new people and unexpected situations. Most devastating is her father's decision to remarry after many years of widowhood. Molly's faltering efforts to cope gracefully with an impossible stepmother, a beguiling stepsister, burdensome secrets and burgeoning romance ring as true today as when Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Wives And Daughters in 1865.
• Cast: Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hollander, Anthony Howell, Michael Gambon, Barbara Flynn, Deborah Findlay, Iain Glen, Peter Copley, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Ian Carmichael, Rosamund Pike, Emily McKenzie, Elizabeth Spriggs, Tonia Chauvet, Shaughan Seymour, Georgie Glen, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Fred Pearson, Jacqueline Pilton, Jemima Rooper, Richard Coyle, Penelope Wilton, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Keylee Jade Flanders, Gordon Gostelow, Dilys Hamlett, Ben Illis, Dariel Pertwee, Charles Simon, Tim Wallers, Steven Webb, Nicholas Renton
• Director: Nicholas Renton
• Runtime: 5:00
• Company: BBC Video
• Media Format: Series