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A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles... more | full synopsisAwards:
1 win & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Penry-Jones thriller '39 Steps' pulls in 7.3m (From digitalspy. 29 December 2008, 7:18 AM, PST)
2008 Year in Review: Movies
(From AfterEllen.com. 15 December 2008, 8:41 PM, PST)
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A huge let-down. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Zoe Tapper | ... | Selina Dawes (as Zoë Tapper) | |
| Anna Madeley | ... | Margaret Prior | |
| Domini Blythe | ... | Mother Prior | |
| Amanda Plummer | ... | Miss Ridley | |
| Mary Jo Randle | ... | Mrs. Jelf | |
| Caroline Loncq | ... | Ruth Vigers | |
| Anne Reid | ... | Mrs. Brink | |
| Vincent Leclerc | ... | Theophilus | |
| Anna Massey | ... | Miss Haxby | |
| Ferelith Young | ... | Helen | |
| Sara Gregory | ... | Madeleine (as Sara Lloyd Gregory) | |
| Brett Watson | ... | Stephen Prior | |
| Candis Nergaard | ... | Black Eyed Sue | |
| Kenneth Hadley | ... | Prison Porter | |
| Sarah Crowden | ... | Ada |
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Affinity was the television low point of Christmas 2008. It seemed to have been thrown together at the last minute, with jarring editing, terrible sound balances, and a script that seemed to have been put together by a cliché-filled computer. Everything seemed wrong - the men's facial hair, the extras' wooden street-walking, the dreadful music, the sheer repetitiveness (we turned it into a drinking game: one finger for 'walks nervously through prison gates', two fingers for 'walks nervously into cell'; we all got very drunk.) I loathe wobbly-cam shots, trying to watch characters as they bounce around the screen in a haphazard fashion, but occasionally, it can be bearable - Bourne, for instance. 'Affinity' was not the place for wobbly-cams, especially when they are mixed - seemingly at random - with steady shots. I hate to ask it, because he is supposed to have TV's Midas Touch, but is Andrew Davies entering 'Emperor's New Clothes' territory?