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Hattie

  • TV Movie
  • 20112011
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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Robert Bathurst, Ruth Jones, and Aidan Turner in Hattie (2011)
  • Drama
Married comic actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier seem the perfect couple, with their two young sons and the legendary Christmas dinners they host for their friends. However, in 1963, ... Read allMarried comic actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier seem the perfect couple, with their two young sons and the legendary Christmas dinners they host for their friends. However, in 1963, after a charity fund raiser for leukaemia, Hattie meets the young and handsome John Schofi... Read allMarried comic actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier seem the perfect couple, with their two young sons and the legendary Christmas dinners they host for their friends. However, in 1963, after a charity fund raiser for leukaemia, Hattie meets the young and handsome John Schofield, whose son died of the disease. He tells her that she is lovely and boosts her confide... Read all
IMDb RATING
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511
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  • Director
    • Dan Zeff
  • Writers
    • Stephen Russell
    • Andy Merriman(book "Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques")
  • Stars
    • Ruth Jones
    • Robert Bathurst
    • Aidan Turner
Top credits
  • Director
    • Dan Zeff
  • Writers
    • Stephen Russell
    • Andy Merriman(book "Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques")
  • Stars
    • Ruth Jones
    • Robert Bathurst
    • Aidan Turner
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    • 12User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Aidan Turner in Hattie (2011)
    As John Le Mesurier in "Hattie", BBC
    Susy Kane in "Hattie"
    Robert Bathurst, Ruth Jones, and Aidan Turner in Hattie (2011)

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    Ruth Jones
    Ruth Jones
    • Hattie Jacquesas Hattie Jacques
    Robert Bathurst
    Robert Bathurst
    • John Le Mesurieras John Le Mesurier
    Aidan Turner
    Aidan Turner
    • John Schofieldas John Schofield
    Jeany Spark
    Jeany Spark
    • Joan Malinas Joan Malin
    Jay Simpson
    Jay Simpson
    • Bruceas Bruce
    Graham Fellows
    • Eric Sykesas Eric Sykes
    Marcia Warren
    • Esma Cannonas Esma Cannon
    Stephen Critchlow
    Stephen Critchlow
    • Gerald Thomasas Gerald Thomas
    Susy Kane
    Susy Kane
    • Young Actressas Young Actress
    Lewis Macleod
    Lewis Macleod
    • Eamonn Andrewsas Eamonn Andrews
    Brian Pettifer
    Brian Pettifer
    • Ronas Ron
    James Martin
    • Regas Reg
    John Bell
    John Bell
    • Robin Le Mesurieras Robin Le Mesurier
    John Reader
    • Kim Le Mesurieras Kim Le Mesurier
    Hattie Jacques
    Hattie Jacques
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Joanna Kaczynska
    Joanna Kaczynska
    • Amanda Barrieas Amanda Barrie
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    John Le Mesurier
    John Le Mesurier
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    John Schofield
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Dan Zeff
    • Writers
      • Stephen Russell
      • Andy Merriman(book "Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques")
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    Storyline

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    Married comic actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier seem the perfect couple, with their two young sons and the legendary Christmas dinners they host for their friends. However, in 1963, after a charity fund raiser for leukaemia, Hattie meets the young and handsome John Schofield, whose son died of the disease. He tells her that she is lovely and boosts her confidence about her plumpness. When he splits with his wife, John LeMesurier suggests he becomes the family's lodger but he becomes Hattie's lover, jealously so, angry that he cannot be part of her 'This Is Your Life' TV tribute. The gentlemanly LeMesurier moves into the spare room, all the while remaining good friends with Hattie, who encourages him to date family friend Joan Malin, whom he will eventually marry. To preserve Hattie's public reputation, her husband accepts blame in the divorce court and will remain on good terms with her for the rest of her life. Two years later, Schofield deserts Hattie for an Italian heiress. She will never remarry, seeking the company of younger men and succumbing to illness propounded by her size, leading to her death from a heart attack at the early age of fifty-eight. —don @ minifie-1
    • television actress
    • husband wife relationship
    • forename as title
    • one word title
    • british
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      • Drama
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    • Trivia
      Robert Bathurst, who played John Le Mesurier, subsequently went on to play the character of Sergeant Wilson in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019), a series of remakes of the three missing episodes of Dad's Army (1968). In the original series, Sergeant Wilson was played by John Le Mesurier.
    • Goofs
      Scenes are included showing filming of Carry on Cabby (1963), including a clapper board with that title. However, this movie was produced as "Call Me a Cab". The title was changed after production was completed.
    • Quotes

      [Hattie meets John Schofield for the first time when he drives up in a red E-Type Jaguar sports car]

      John Schofield: Are you all right here, or do you need to sit in the back like the Queen?

      Hattie Jacques: [coyly] I'd need six months' notice to squeeze my behind in there.

    • Crazy credits
      Prologue:  "This film is based on a true story. Some events have been created or changed."
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Carry on Cabby
      Composed by Eric Rogers

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    Top review
    5/10
    Dear, poor John
    Last year I watched a BBC dramatisation of doomed comedian Tony Hancock's affair with his best friend John LeMesurier's wife Joan, little realising that this was the second time the urbane, slightly effete but popular actor, later best known as Sgt Wilson in the long running comedy series "Dad's Army, had been cuckolded. Even more surprising was to learn that his first wife was the apparently sex-less, matronly Hattie Jacques and that her affair, as well as being torrid in the extreme, was with a much younger, handsome and as the phrase is today "ripped" man, her driver John Schofield. Worse yet, she went along with her lover's idea of moving LeMesurier up to the attic room of their marital home so that Schofeld could move full time into her bed and even let LeMesurier take the blame for their inevitable divorce to protect her family image from being tarnished.

    Such a remarkable story, featuring the lives of two of Britain's best-loved actors of the 60's and 70's, was always going to have a high curiosity value bordering on prurience but failed, for me, by not taking sides and playing it all too neutrally. Perhaps this was due to pressure from the family and friends of the late Ms Jacques, I would imagine, but in trying to dress her liaison with the otherwise spivvy, on-the-make Schofield as some grand love affair, both are let off far too lightly. Remember that this triangle was played out with two young children in attendance too and unsavoury doesn't even begin to describe the showbiz goings-on here. We're almost directed to have sympathy for the self-deprecating jolly fat lady getting herself a young bloke and her emotional conflict in deciding which of the two Johns to plump (sorry) for when in fact her complicity in the goings-on here is morally reprehensible.

    Thus I found it an awkward watch and came away from it by not respecting or liking any of the three leads, even LeMesurier, so much is his "door-mat" impression played out. The acting is good however, Ruth Jones doing a not quite lady-like enough impression of Jacques but otherwise carrying off the physical and vocal transformation well. Robert Bathurst doesn't look much like LeMesurier facially but gets his shrug-shoulders world- weariness down-pat, while Aidan Turner is excellent as the vile Schofield, the unwelcome cuckoo in the nest. The dialogue I did find to be characterful and subtle, histrionics avoided as the situation progresses.

    Life-styles of the rich and famous are always morbidly inviting but on the whole I wish I'd looked the other way, rather like Hattie should have before she started on her ill- considered affair.
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    • Lejink
    • May 13, 2011

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    • Release date
      • January 19, 2011 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Slawa Hattie Jacques
    • Filming locations
      • Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
    • Production company
      • Angel Eye Film & Television
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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