Joana Lumley, Katie Ryder-Richardson, Susan Hampshire, Donald Sinden, Robert Hardy and ... more
Patrick Macnee star in this wonderful drama set in the new found peace of the late 1940s and early 1950s.First introduced in Coming Home, the best selling book by Ro...
Joanna Lumley Katie Ryder-Richardson Susan Hampshire Donald Sinden Robert Hardy and ... more
Patrick Macnee star in this wonderful drama set in the new found peace of the late 1940's and 1950's. First introduced in Comimg Home the best seller by Rosamunde...
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charismatic Carey-Lewis family, their friends and their enchanting Cornish ancestral home of Nancherrow.When Judith Dunbar is sent to boarding school she makes friends with the wild and carefree Loveday Carey-Lewis. It is friendship which is set to last forever, from the halcyon days of their youth filled with passion, fun and romance through all the troubles of the Second World War and into married life.
Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home: When Judith Dunbar is sent to boarding school she makes ... more
friends with the wild and carefree Loveday Carey-Lewis. Loveday introduces Judith to her wealthy and glamorous family and their glorious ancestral home of Nancherrow. The next few years are glorious joyful halcyon days of passion fun and romance as the friends remain blissfully unaware of the spectre of war which is about to overshadow their lives... Nancherrow: Joanna Lumley Katie Ryder-Richardson Susan Hampshire Donald Sinden Robert Hardy and Patrick Macnee star in this wonderful drama set in the new found peace of the late 1940's and 1950's. First introduced in Comimg Home the best seller by Rosamunde Pilcher Nancherrow is the ancestral home of the charismatic Carey-Lewis family. When the Colonel dies it is his irrepressible daughter Loveday who inherits the house and all of its problems. Bewitched by the magic of Nancherrow Loveday fights to keep the estate going so that in time her young son Nat may inherit the house. Meanwhile the newly wed Judith is finding that married life to a doctor isn't as easy as she hoped it would be. And Loveday's marriage to Walter is threatened by the resurgence of her true love. It is a time of much change and heartfelt expectation for everyone at Nancherrow.
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Production Year: 1997 - Drama - Director: Ronan O'Leary - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: James Spader, Anne Brochet, Barry McGovern, Anna Massey
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Drama - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Shelagh Fraser, Barbara Flynn, Keith Drinkel, Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Colin Douglas
Advantages: Brilliant casting, beautiful locations and gripping, charming story. Disadvantages: Some plot changes from book, also some dubbing.
This drama was created in 1998, as a celebration of the author RosamundePilcher and serves to enthrall the viewer throughout. The plot is charming, following the young Judith Dunbar (Keira Knightley, later Emily Mortier) and her growing from naivete to a young woman who endures the ravages of war and adolsence to finally "come home". She is sent to boarding school in England while her parents live in Singapore, where she meets Loveday Carey Lewis (Poppy Martin, later Katie Ryder-Richardson). Judith still spends time with her Aunt Louise, who introduces her to the ghastly Billy Fawcett, whose advances frighten her and taint her vision of men for a while.Loveday introduces Judith to her family (her parents are played perfectly by the legendary Joanna Lumley and Peter O'Toole) and the exciting world of Nancherrow (Wrotham Park ...
Advantages: Delightful characters, very well-written, eminently re-readable Disadvantages: None for me personally
trying to keep up with the neighbours, sending her children to expensive private schools, mixing with the 'right' people - and yet becoming vastly overweight, struggling to keep out of debt, and complaining about all the things she has to do.
Throughout the book, each subsequent chapter concentrates primarily on a different character who is in some way connected with Penelope. While this could lead to confusion, RosamundePilcher's skill at characterisation means that what actually happens is we gradually learn more and more about the family and their closest friends. Each different window on a character provides a new viewpoint, and frequently some surprises.
Several of the chapters are lengthy flashbacks starting with Penelope's teenage years. She lived in a rather bohemian household in Cornwall with an elderly artist father ...
Advantages: Fantastic cast, very engaging story - all-round good 2-part tv drama Disadvantages: Emily Mortimer, some dubbing
Please note, I have the VHS edition of it so am only reviewing the main feature itself, not any extras etc. which may be on the DVD.
Coming Home is a truly excellent ITV two-part drama. It is a dramatisation of the book with the same name by RosamundePilcher (which I haven't read - sorry!)
The drama is set in 1930s/1940s Cornwall, and centers around Judith Dunbarr (Keira Knightly and Emily Mortimer). Her family move to Singapore when she is 11 or 12 and she is left in England going to boarding school, staying with her aunt Louise (Penelope Keith). There, she meets her best friend Loveday Carey-Lewis (Katie Ryder Richardson), whose (Joanna Lumley) own a lush stately home in the countryside - and have lots of money. The plot then leads on to Judith and Loveday growing up, switching actresses and living through World War II, but ...
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