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6.5/10   2,326 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Nigel Balchin (based on the novel by "A Way Through the Wood")
Julian Fellowes (writer)
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Release Date:
18 November 2005 (UK) more
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A couple's marriage is complicated by the introduction of a third party. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win & 4 nominations more
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(2 articles)
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No fuss please, we're British more (53 total)

Cast

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Tom Wilkinson ... James Manning

Emily Watson ... Anne Manning
Hermione Norris ... Priscilla
John Warnaby ... Simon

Rupert Everett ... Bill Bule
Richenda Carey ... Sarah Tufnell
Linda Bassett ... Maggie
Christine Lohr ... Nurse
Alice O'Connell ... Maggie's Daughter
John Neville ... Lord Rawston
Peregrine Kitchener-Fellowes ... Bill's Son Charles
Henry Drake ... Bill's Son Freddy
David Harewood ... Inspector Marshall
Sabine Tourtellier ... Receptionist
Philip Rham ... French Lawyer
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Also Known As:
A Way Through the Woods (UK) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language including some sexual references.
Runtime:
85 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:M | UK:12 (DVD rating) | UK:15 (original rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Brazil:14 | Germany:12 | Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | South Korea:15 | USA:TV-14 (cable rating) | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | USA:R (PCA #41078)
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
No fuss please, we're British, 25 January 2009
6/10
Author: fanaticusanonymous from Italy

Julian Fellowes, the distinguished writer of "Godsford Park", presents us with another civilized tale of self contained emotions. This time however, the ingredients are somehow at odds with each other and the strange taste that left in my palate indicates that, perhaps, it was removed from the oven a little too soon. I longed for Joseph Losey at the helm and Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles and Alan Bates as the protagonists. Emily Watson is always marvelous but here, she doesn't have the kind of support she, as an actress or as a character, deserved and/or needed. Tom Wilkinson, as good as he is, doesn't have the layers of a Dirk Bogarde or James Mason. He is exactly what you get and Rupert Everett, who became a star overnight with Julian Mitchell's "Another Country" has taken a strange and puzzling road. His close ups are kind of frightening. His mouth has become the center of attention and not the kind of attention one would expect. It belongs to the villain in a horror movie. I noticed that already in his comedy with Madonna. I know, perhaps, all this sounds irrelevant but it conditioned my response to "Separate Lies" I wanted to be riveted and I wasn't.

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