Complete credited cast: | |||
Lee Remick | ... | Antonia Lynch-Gibbon | |
Richard Attenborough | ... | Palmer Anderson | |
Ian Holm | ... | Martin Lynch-Gibbon | |
Claire Bloom | ... | Honor Klein | |
Jennie Linden | ... | Georgie Hands | |
Clive Revill | ... | Alexander Lynch-Gibbon | |
Ann Firbank | ... | Rosemary Lynch-Gibbon | |
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Rosamund Greenwood | ... | Miss Seelhaft |
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Constance Lorne | ... | Miss Hernshaw |
Robert Gillespie | ... | Winking Patient | |
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Katherine Parr | ... | Receptionist |
Nerys Hughes | ... | Nurse | |
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Anne Jameson | ... | Woman at Party (as Ann Jameson) |
Yvette Rees | ... | Woman at Party |
The wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow and spoiled Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, and loves his mistress Georgie Hands. Antonia is under therapy with Martin's best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. One day, Antonia decides to ask for a divorce from Martin, to live with Palmer, but they want to keep Martin as their friend. When Palmer's sister Dr. Honor Klein comes from Oxford to stay with her brother, she discloses the affair of Georgie, who was her student, and Martin to Palmer and Antonia. Meanwhile, Martin's brother Alexander Lynch-Gibbon has a love affair with Georgie, and Martin falls in unrequited love with Honor, but he discovers a secret about Palmer. Who will stay with whom in the end? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Focussed on Ian Holmes wine merchant, a group of bored middle class professionals fill their lives by having a series of doomed affairs with each other.
Time has not been kind to this 'satire' based on Iris Murdoch's book. The characters are pretty much all detestable or plain daft and although Holmes brings the occasional smile to the face, the other characters particularly Attenborough and Remick are so unrealistic it's impossible to buy into what was presumably supposed to be sharp and biting.
Firmer direction might have helped - overall, sloppy.