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Gideon's Daughter

  • TV Movie
  • 20052005
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.9K
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Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
Drama
A mature man rethinks his life when his daughter begin to ignore him.A mature man rethinks his life when his daughter begin to ignore him.A mature man rethinks his life when his daughter begin to ignore him.
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.9K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Stephen Poliakoff
  • Writer
    • Stephen Poliakoff
  • Stars
    • Bill Nighy
    • Miranda Richardson
    • Emily Blunt
  • Director
    • Stephen Poliakoff
  • Writer
    • Stephen Poliakoff
  • Stars
    • Bill Nighy
    • Miranda Richardson
    • Emily Blunt
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 17User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 4 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Miranda Richardson and Bill Nighy in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Miranda Richardson and Bill Nighy in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Miranda Richardson and Bill Nighy in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Miranda Richardson, Bill Nighy, and Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Miranda Richardson and Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Robert Lindsay, Samantha Whittaker, and Leonard Dalrymple in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Bill Nighy and Jason Manford in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Jason Manford in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter (2005)
    Tom Goodman-Hill and Kerry Shale in Gideon's Daughter (2005)

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    Bill Nighy
    Bill Nighy
    • Gideon
    Miranda Richardson
    Miranda Richardson
    • Stella
    Emily Blunt
    Emily Blunt
    • Natasha
    Robert Lindsay
    Robert Lindsay
    • Sneath
    Ronni Ancona
    Ronni Ancona
    • Barbara
    Tom Hardy
    Tom Hardy
    • Andrew
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    • Dent
    Joanna Page
    Joanna Page
    • Diane
    David Westhead
    David Westhead
    • Bill
    Samantha Whittaker
    • Becca
    Kerry Shale
    Kerry Shale
    • Badalamenti
    Daniel Mendoza
    • Badalamenti Spokesman
    Cate Fowler
    Cate Fowler
    • Council Leader
    Michael Fitzpatrick
    • American Producer
    Graham Cull
    • Hospital Stranger
    Julia Malewski
    • School Compere
    Jason Manford
    Jason Manford
    • Comic
    Bobby Bragg
    • Miller
    • Director
      • Stephen Poliakoff
    • Writer
      • Stephen Poliakoff
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      David Westhead was injured in an accident while filming.
    • Goofs
      The Wolverhampton Church Choir are singing music that requires 40 singers (Tallis' Spem in Alium) but there are fewer than 40 singers. Also the sound recording has the choir close-miked and split antiphonally (with the sounds of the sub-choirs coming from different places), but the choir seen in the film are all standing together.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007)

    User reviews17

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    6/10
    Beautiful but empty
    There's always a lot to enjoy in any Stephen Polliakoff film: striking use of images and music, an interest in big questions, and the director's lack of fear of letting things run at a slow pace where this makes the story, and atmosphere, more absorbing. But there's also always a journey into a stylised world, and a tendency to set up a false dichotomy between an overly-schematised, and fake, business world, and an overly romanticised (and arguably no less fake) real world. Even when my sympathies lie with Polliakoff, I'm always frustrated by his failure to give our own side a sufficiently hard time. 'Gideon's Daughter' is not his most interesting film, largely because its central characters (a jaded spin doctor and his almost supernaturally beautiful, talented and serene daughter) are fundamentally quite dull. A moment towards the end of the film illustrates the problem succinctly: we see the main characters disappearing from a beautiful Edinburgh street, a street that it the real world in permanently busy with traffic and people but which here is shown devoid of cars and pedestrians alike: and while a director should be forgiven occasional moments of dramatic licence, when the entire drama is framed through such a distorted lens, though big questions may be asked, they're not really answered. This is a wonderfully crafted little film; but also a film that has very little relevance to the messiness of real lives.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 23, 2006 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • BBC (United Kingdom)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Дочь Гидеона
    • Filming locations
      • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    • Production companies
      • BBC America
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • FremantleMedia
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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