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A Handful Of Dust [1988] [DVD]
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050824167354
Format: PAL, Widescreen, Colour
Label: Prism Leisure
Languages: EnglishUnknownDolby Digital 5.1EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Prism Leisure
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Prism Leisure
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Prism Leisure
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Actors: Array
Director: Charles Sturridge
Manufacturer: Prism Leisure
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's Jazz Age satire, A Handful of Dust is a brutal story of a failed marriage with shattering consquences. James Wilby stars as a country gentleman, Tony Last, who loves rattling around his expansive estate, Hetton Abbey.
Tony's wife, Brenda (Kristin Scott Thomas), however, pines for London's excitement and commences an affair in the city with penniless aristocrat John Beaver (Rupert Graves). The fallout of Brenda's betrayal includes a family tragedy and creative divorce settlement ultimately undone when fed-up Tony goes on a naturalist trek through Brazil and becomes the hostage of a mad, illiterate explorer (Alec Guinness). One might wonder whether it's more appropriate to laugh or tremble at these events, and director Charles Sturridge's handsome, graceful production ingeniously accommodates the story's streaks of dark comedy and horror. With brief, memorable supporting roles for Anjelica Huston and Stephen Fry.----Tom Keogh
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