02.04.02
The
Way We Live Now - on VHS
Release
22nd April 2002
A
tale of Victorian power, passion and corruption
Set
in the railway boom of the 1870's, yet with remarkable contemporary
resonance, The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old order
is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance.
Starring David Suchet, Cheryl Campbell, Douglas Hodge, Matthew Macfadyen,
Paloma Baeza and Rob Bryden.
The
Way We Live Now contains all the elements that made Trollope the
most popular novelist of his day - the excitement and anguish of
young love, the intoxication of forbidden passion and the enduring
values of honourable men; but also the raw energy and charisma of
the most powerful city the world has ever seen, and the greed and
corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
Peopled
with a range of characters that only Trollope could create - the
towering figure of Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), the Great Financier,
a 19th Century Robert Maxwell; Sir Felix Carbury (Matthew Macfadyen),
a young aristocrat so dissolute he would sell his own mother (Cheryl
Campbell) to pay his gambling debts and whose simultaneous pursuit
of two very different women causes all who know him to despair;
his cousin Roger (Douglas Hodge), a man of integrity horrified at
the way the world he knew is slipping away, in love with Felix's
sister Hetta (Paloma Baeza), who herself is in love with Roger's
young protΓ©gΓ©, the engineer Paul Montague (Cillian
Murphy), whose life is complicated by a rash engagement to a glamorous
American (Miranda Otto) who, it is rumoured, once shot a man in
Oregon and has now followed Paul to England to hold him to his promise.
Highly
acclaimed Andrew Davies, known for his adaptations of Pride and
Prejudice, Wives and Daughters and Take A Girl Like You, adapted
The Way We Live Now. David Suchet was also voted Best Actor at the
Royal Television Society Awards.
RELEASE
DATE: 22ND APRIL 2002
PRICE: Β£19.99 (double video)
CAT. NUMBER: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔV 7225
CERTIFICATE: PG
GENRE: DRAMA
RUNNING TIME: 295 MINS APPROX
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