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Overview

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Director:

Sandra Goldbacher

Writer:

Sandra Goldbacher (written by)

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Release Date:

31 July 1998 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Plot:

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile... more | add synopsis

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations more

User Comments:

The driver peeks out, trying to find one face in this concrete world full of souls. more (57 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Minnie Driver ... Rosina da Silva

Tom Wilkinson ... Mr. Charles Cavendish
Harriet Walter ... Mrs. Cavendish
Florence Hoath ... Clementina Cavendish
Bruce Myers ... Rosina's Father

Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Henry Cavendish
Arlene Cockburn ... Lily Milk, the Maid
Emma Bird ... Rebecca
Adam Levy ... Benjamin
Countess Koulinskyi ... Aunt Sofka (as The Countess Koulinskyi)
Diana Brooks ... Rosina's Mother
Raymond Brody ... Litnoff
Cyril Shaps ... Doctor
Kendal Cramer ... Young Rosina
Ralph Riach ... Mr. Hewlett
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Additional Details

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Continuity: When Mr. Cavendish takes the first photo of Miss Blackchurch, the camera is pointing toward the floor and not where Mr. Cavendish is looking. more

Quotes:

Mary Blackchurch: You ask a lot of questions.
Henry Cavendish: Then you ask me one. Anything you like.
Mary Blackchurch: Why are you really back from Oxford?
Henry Cavendish: I was found in an opium den in Spitsfeild with a whore.
[both laugh]
Henry Cavendish: You don't belive me and your not suprised.
Mary Blackchurch: no.
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The driver peeks out, trying to find one face in this concrete world full of souls., 26 July 1999
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Author: anonymous from greenland

I quite enjoyed this movie. Sure, my mind wandered a lot because the story is hardly gripping. I'm also positive I won't remember much about it next week, except that Minnie Driver's talent and beauty is stunning. STUNNING. I did also feel that the leading man was poorly cast. He did not seem to me a person that a young, vibrant woman would fall for. I'm sure the script called for a older man, but age wasn't the problem. He just didn't seem to fit in with Minnie Driver. Nonetheless, the whole movie was excellently shot and wonderfully acted and extremely high quality, but conversely it's regrettably forgettable. (That's a nice phrase, no?)

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