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- With "The Winter Guest" he's decided to go small. Clearly a character-driven story, Rickman co- wrote this feature that's based on Sharman MacDonald's stage play about friendships and self- discovery.
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The film is based on Sharman MacDonald 's play, [2] premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (in the Quarry studio theatre, 23 January to 18 February 1995) before transferring to the Almeida Theatre in London (14 March to 15 April 1995).
Jan 16, 1998 · “The Winter Guest,” based on a play by Sharman Macdonald, follows these four couples and listens to them. There isn’t a lot of interaction between them, although Alex does bring Nita home, and she does talk with Frances.
The Winter Guest: Directed by Alan Rickman. With Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe. A recent widow, who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son, gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.
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- Drama
- Alan Rickman
- 1997-12-24
Sep 14, 1997 · Acclaimed British actor Alan Rickman makes a stagy but accomplished directing debut in “The Winter Guest,” an intimate drama tracking four pairs of Scots in a bleak seacoast town on the coldest...
This movie centers on four pairs - Frances (Dame Emma Thompson) is a recent widow who wants to get away from Scotland to Australia with her teenage son Alex (Gary Hollywood) to escape her memories, arrival of her old mother Elspeth (Phyllida Law) makes her reconsider her decision.
Sep 10, 2012 · Set against the snow, wind and ice-blasted landscape of a Fife fishing village, it follows and contrasts the diffident, often quarrelsome relationships of four pairs of characters - two teenage ...
PLOT: On the coldest day in memory in a coastal Scottish town, four sets of people explore their relationships and life overall. Frances (EMMA THOMPSON), a recently widowed photographer, must deal not only with her loss, but also with her doting, elderly mother, Elspeth (PHYLLIDA LAW).
