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6.7/10   175 votes
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Writers:
Rebecca West (novel)
Hugh Whitemore (writer)
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Release Date:
14 February 1985 (USA) more
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Plot:
Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination more
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Unforgettable more (8 total)

Cast

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Julie Christie ... Kitty Baldry

Glenda Jackson ... Margaret Grey

Ann-Margret ... Jenny Baldry

Alan Bates ... Chris Baldry

Ian Holm ... Doctor Anderson
Frank Finlay ... William Grey
Jeremy Kemp ... Frank
Hilary Mason ... Ward
John Sharp ... Pearson
Elizabeth Edmonds ... Emery
Valerie Whittington ... Beatrice
Patsy Byrne ... Mrs. Plummer
Amanda Grinling ... Alexandra
Edward de Souza ... Edward
Michael Cochrane ... Stephen
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some violent images and language.
Runtime:
USA:99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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This is the first film in the U.K. to be rated with the new PG certificate more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Unforgettable, 6 February 2005
10/10
Author: trpdean from New York, New York

This is superb - the acting wonderful, sets, clothes, music - but most of all the story itself.

I am amazed there aren't more reviews of this movie - certainly one of the best of the 1980s.

It's also a wonderful movie to see in tandem with the great "Random Harvest" which has much the same opening crisis

-- a middle aged, unknown English W.W.I officer is in a hospital toward the close of the war, suffering from shell shock and complete amnesia without any idea of his name, origin, or anywhere he belongs - he proves to be a very wealthy established man - when he "recovers", he will not remember the years before the war --

But there the movies' resemblances end.

My warmest thanks to all who participated in the movie - particularly the actors Ian Holm, Alan Bates, Ann Margret (what a great and surprising casting choice), Glenda Jackson, Julie Christie.

This one stays with you forever.

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