Winter guest in Drama DVDs & Videos

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A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Thompson plays opposite Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. Rickman's directorial debut, adapted from the stage play by Sharman MacDonald.

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WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: Adaptation of E.M. Forster's first novel, written in 1905, about a middle-aged English widow, Lilia Herriton, who shocks her very repressed, proper, and dull in-laws by marrying a young local she meets while vacationing in the Italian countryside. Tragedy strikes and her relatives plot to bring her young child to England for a "proper" upbringing. THE WINTER GUEST: A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Emma Thompson plays opposite Phyllida Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. EAT THE RICH: A motley group of outrageous social outcasts wages a no-holds-barred class war against London's jet set.

Description:

A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Thompson plays opposite Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. Rickman's directorial debut, adapted from the stage play by Sharman MacDonald.

Description:

A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Thompson plays opposite Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. Rickman's directorial debut, adapted from the stage play by Sharman MacDonald.