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2 August 1992 (USA)
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The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with A Woman of Substance ends with this epic tale! Paula O' Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business-and struggles to salvage her marriage. | add synopsis
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lindsay Wagner | ... | Paula O'Neill | |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Jack Figg | |
| Stephanie Beacham | ... | Arabella | |
| Christopher Cazenove | ... | Jonathan Ainsley | |
| Stuart Wilson | ... | Jack Miller | |
| James Saito | ... | Tony Chiu | |
| Fiona Fullerton | ... | Madelena | |
| Gary Cady | ... | Philip | |
| David Robb | ... | Shane O'Neill | |
| Claire Oberman | ... | Sarah Pascal | |
| Christopher Blake | ... | Sandy | |
| Thomas Ewbank | ... | Patrick | |
| Julian Fellowes | ... | Dennis | |
| Rob Freeman | ... | Harvey G. Rawson | |
| Rupert Bates | ... | Burrows |
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Follows "A Woman of Substance" (1984)
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After watching A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream, this final installment was a bitter let down. I don't know why Jenny Seagrove was not in this, but the usually excellent Lindsay Wagner was on auto-pilot as Paula O'Neill and Anthony Hopkins was wasted in a pointless role. Can you tell I didn't like it yet?!?
A wafer-thin plot, totally ignoring the best parts of BTB's book and a decidedly dicky script did not redeem this - well, I don't know what to call it really.
The whole thing also looks very dated, even though it was only filmed in 1992 - it looks more like '82 to me!
I would advise people who have read the books to stick to the books and the first two mini-series and avoid this one like the plague!