Coming Home (1998) (TV)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Giles Foster

Writers:

Rosamunde Pilcher (novel)
John Goldsmith (writer)

Release Date:

12 April 1998 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Drama series about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

Plot Keywords:

Boarding School | Coming Of Age | Inheritance | Loss Of Parents | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Peter O'Toole	...	Colonel Carey-Lewis
Joanna Lumley	...	Diana Carey-Lewis
Penelope Keith	...	Aunt Louise
Anneliese Uhlig	...	Aunt Lavinia
David McCallum	...	Billy Fawcett
Emily Mortimer	...	Judith Dunbar
Gruschenka Stevens	...	Athena Carey-Lewis
Paul Bettany	...	Edward Carey-Lewis
Katie Ryder Richardson	...	Loveday Carey-Lewis
George Asprey	...	Jeremy Wells
Heikko Deutschmann	...	Gus
Patrick Ryecart	...	Tommy Mortimer
Carol Drinkwater	...	Biddy
Susan Hampshire	...	Miss Catto
Malcolm Stoddard	...	Somerville

Also Known As:

Heimkehr (Germany)
Rosamunde Pilcher - Heimkehr (Germany)
Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home (Australia) (DVD title)

Runtime:

199 min

Country:

UK | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Godrevy, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK

Company:

Yorkshire Television (YTV)

Movie Connections:

Followed by Nancherrow (1999) (TV)

Poorly done

With Knightly and O'Tool as the leads, this film had good possibilities, and with McCallum as the bad guy after Knightly, maybe some tension. But they threw it all away on silly evening frill and then later on with maudlin war remnants. It was of course totally superficial, beautiful English country and seaside or not.The number one mistake was dumping Knightly so early on in the film, when she could easily have played someone a couple of years older, instead of choosing someone ten years older to play the part. They missed all the chances to have great conflict among the cast, and instead stupidly pulled at the easy and low-cost heartstring elements.