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Title: Winter Solstice (TV Movie 2003)
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| Sinéad Cusack | ... | Elfrida Phibbs | |
| Jan Niklas | ... | Oscar Blundell | |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Gloria Blundell | |
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Emilia Streets | ... | Francesca 'Fran' Blundell (as Emma Streets) |
| Sophie Schütt | ... | Carrie Marchmont | |
| Ralf Bauer | ... | Andreas Mendel | |
| Jean Simmons | ... | Countess Lucinda Rhives | |
| Peter Ustinov | ... | Hughie McLellan (as Sir Peter Ustinov) | |
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Jason Durr | ... | Sam Howard |
| Anna Maguire | ... | Lucy Marchmont | |
| Angus Wright | ... | Peter Kennedy | |
| Marsha Fitzalan | ... | Didi Marchmont | |
| John Bird | ... | Barry | |
| Maureen Lipman | ... | Marcia | |
| Gregory Finnegan | ... | Giles | |
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Elfrida Phibbs thought she was retiring from her London life to a "geriatric bolthole" in the country. She soon finds herself compassionately tending to her neighbor, Oscar, who has suffered a tragic loss. Together, they agree to depart to Scotland for the holidays, in order to avoid Christmas and the painful memories of what has been lost. They will simply skip Christmas. But Elfrida has a young relative desperate to get her own teenage niece, Lucy Marchmont, away from ugly family drama in London, and asks to join Elfrida in Scotland. Soon, Christmas of the heart creeps in, and this group of random people find a different kind of Christmas might be the best kind.
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Rory Kennedy: Because you are one.
Lucy Marchmont: Oh, c'mon Rory.
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This was Jean Simmons' final television acting role before her death on January 22, 2010 at the age of 80. See more »Quotes
Lucy Marchmont: Why do they always treat me like a kid?Rory Kennedy: Because you are one.
Lucy Marchmont: Oh, c'mon Rory.
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25 December 2003 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Rosamunde Pilcher - Wintersonne See more »Company Credits
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Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Own Two Feet Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) See more »
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Without having read the book, I just watched Winter Solstice, the movie. I can't help but saying that I found it to be a wonderful, touching and heartwarming movie, with a number of excellent actors and actresses of whom I had never heard before.
The character of Lucy Marchmont, played extraordinarily by young actress Anna Maguire, got to the bottom of my heart. She draws the character of a young teenager troubled by the fact that she does not have an apparent place in life and that she is constantly dumped one way or another by the people she loves, until the moment when only through the innocence of her young age, she manages to get straight to the heart of a mature Oscar Blundell, suffering for the loss of his own young daughter Francesca.
A great movie. Glad I watched it.