I Capture the Castle (2003)
Country: GB/SA
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Tim Fywell
Cast: Marc Blucas, Rose Byrne, Sinéad Cusack, Tara Fitzgerald, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Henry Thomas
Synopsis:
An author takes his family to live in a castle in Suffolk, is jailed for threatening his wife with a sharp instrument and emerges a burnt out case, unable to write a line. His daughters grow up in impoverished isolation with their family and bohemian stepmum until one day a pair of American brothers turn up who, it transpires, own the estate...
Review:
Perfectly decent adaptation of Dodie Smith, with an especially strong central performance by the girl, but practically nothing to recommend it to the medium of film other than as an effectively timesaving vehicle for telling a story.
Country: GB/SA
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Tim Fywell
Cast: Marc Blucas, Rose Byrne, Sinéad Cusack, Tara Fitzgerald, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Henry Thomas
Synopsis:
An author takes his family to live in a castle in Suffolk, is jailed for threatening his wife with a sharp instrument and emerges a burnt out case, unable to write a line. His daughters grow up in impoverished isolation with their family and bohemian stepmum until one day a pair of American brothers turn up who, it transpires, own the estate...
Review:
Perfectly decent adaptation of Dodie Smith, with an especially strong central performance by the girl, but practically nothing to recommend it to the medium of film other than as an effectively timesaving vehicle for telling a story.
Country: GB/SA
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Tim Fywell
Cast: Marc Blucas, Rose Byrne, Sinéad Cusack, Tara Fitzgerald, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Henry Thomas
Synopsis:
An author takes his family to live in a castle in Suffolk, is jailed for threatening his wife with a sharp instrument and emerges a burnt out case, unable to write a line. His daughters grow up in impoverished isolation with their family and bohemian stepmum until one day a pair of American brothers turn up who, it transpires, own the estate...
Review:
Perfectly decent adaptation of Dodie Smith, with an especially strong central performance by the girl, but practically nothing to recommend it to the medium of film other than as an effectively timesaving vehicle for telling a story.