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Release year: 1996

Storyline

The merchant marine visits his estranged brother in an English town. Rebuffed by the brother's wife, he hooks up with a local mother and daughter. Juggling both women proves too much when they start arriving together.

Top credits

Directors

Philip Goodhew

Writers

Philip Goodhew

Cast

Julie Walters — Marjorie
Rupert Graves — Harold
Matthew Walker — Stanley
Laura Sadler — Joyce

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Did you know

• Based on the true story of Albert Goozee, who, on a summer's afternoon in 1956, knifed to death his fifty-three-year-old landlady Lydia Leakey and her fourteen-year-old daughter Norma at a popular New Forest picnic spot. Goozee claimed to have become trapped in an adulterous affair with his middle-aged landlady, and that he had been blackmailed into returning every time he had tried to leave or break off the relationship. Goozee was tried only for the murder of the teenage girl, convicted, and imprisoned for life.

• Theatrical movie debut of Nicholas Hoult (Bobby). The same about Amanda Holden.

• The family's boxer dog, Princess (Margaret), is obviously a male dog. The credit for the role is given to Max.

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