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4.5/10   69 votes
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Writers:
Ruth Rendell (novel)
Elaine Waisglass (writer)
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Genre:
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Tagline:
She cooks. She cleans. She kills.
Plot:
An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
There is no fear greater than illiteracy. more

Cast

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Rita Tushingham ... Eunice Parchman
Ross Petty ... George Coverdale
Shelley Peterson ... Jackie Coverdale

Jonathan Crombie ... Bobby Coverdale

Jessica Steen ... Melinda Coverdale
Jackie Burroughs ... Joan Smith
Tom Kneebone ... Norman Smith
Peter MacNeill ... William
Donald Ewer ... Mr. Parchman
Joyce Gordon ... Aunt
Aisha Bicknell ... Young Eunice (as Aisha Tushingham)
Gary Krawford ... Larry
Wanda Cannon ... Bernice
Layne Coleman ... Pastor
Betty Harris ... Teacher
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Judgement in Stone (USA)
The Housekeeper
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
Canada | UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada

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There is no fear greater than illiteracy., 8 March 2007
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Author: ThrownMuse from The land of the Bunyips

Rita Tushingham plays a British woman who murders her father and has an even worse secret: she's illiterate! Oh no! What to do? She moves to America to become a housekeeper for a (rather dysfunctional?!) wealthy family. All is fine and dandy until she flubs up on watering the patriarch's beloved plants because she can't read the instructions he left for her while they were on vacay. This is mostly dull, but has nice touches like incestuous step-sibs, the housekeeper's hilarious whore-turned-religious-freak gal-pal, and a finale that's to die for. Tushingham is excellent as always and revels in the mousiness of her character.

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