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Director:
Nicholas Laughland
Writers:
Thomas Hardy (novel)
Ashley Pharoah (adaptation)
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Release Date:
23 April 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Young educated beauty Fancy Day comes to town to teach school and care for ailing father. Soon gossip around town turns to who Miss Day will marry... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Keeley Hawes ... Fancy Day

James Murray ... Dick Dewy
Terry Mortimer ... Robert Penny (as Terence Mortimer)
Richard Leaf ... Thomas Leaf
Tony Haygarth ... Reuben Dewy
Jane Wheldon ... Mary Dewy
Sian Brooke ... Susan Dewy
Ellie Thackeray ... Bessy Dewy
Liam DeGruchy ... Charley Dewy
John Axon ... Elias Spinks
Steve Pemberton ... Mr. Shiner
Ben Miles ... Parson Maybold
Alethea Steven ... Anne Roebuck
Tom Georgeson ... Geoffrey Day
Sean Arnold ... Farmer
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Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:PG | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-3
Filming Locations:
Ashridge Park, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK more
Company:
Ecosse Films more

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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Fancy is playing the harmonium for the first time in the church, one shot is taken from the former choir place and you can see Dick Dewy standing close to Fancy, although he is supposed to be away. more
Quotes:
Fancy Day: So you'll still speak to me after the choir is gone?
Dick Dewy: I shall certainly consider it.
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Soundtrack:
Abide With Me more

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15 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
Wonderful., 5 January 2006
10/10
Author: Ashley-16 from United Kingdom

I'm a fan of the original novel and came to the film with some trepidation but I thought it was a brilliant piece of work. More "inspired by" than a straight adaptation but there's nothing wrong with that. I thought it was witty, funny, emotional and yet with a small note of melancholy threading through. The cast were all excellent and I was especially impressed with Ben Miles. What a delicate, sad little performance, making us care for this pompous vicar. KeeleyHawes was radiant. Some friends thought she was a little old for the role but I think it made the almost- on-the-shelf theme work especially well. It's a shame it wasn't shot in Dorset but Hardy's Wessex has long vanished from their, subsumed in large fields, double-yellow lines, pylons, traffic. It's a vanished world, as Hardy already knew.

I hope it comes out on DVD.

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