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Wetherby

Play trailer Poster for Wetherby R,  1985,  1h 43m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 64% 11 Reviews Tomatometer 46% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
64% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 46% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
It all starts simply enough. Schoolteacher Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) invites some friends over for a dinner party. The evening concludes. The next day, one of the guests, a mysterious young man (Tim McInnerny) whom she had assumed was invited by one of her friends, returns to her doorstep. She fixes tea; he kills himself in front of her. As the police investigate the dead man's life, Jean begins to obsess over an ill-fated love affair in her own past.

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Jill Forbes Sight & Sound Feb 10, 2020
Where it succeeds is in the extraordinarily brilliant casting and the handling of the shifts from past to present. Where it is less fluent, perhaps, is in the statement of a case. Go to Full Review
Variety Staff Variety Mar 26, 2009
The skill of Hare's approach is that he initially allows us to assume, via normal cinema techniques, that what we saw of the dinner party was the whole story. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Royle Time Out Jan 26, 2006
Redgrave's performance is superb and she's ably supported by Holm, Dench, and Hamilton in particular. Go to Full Review
Stephen Schiff Vanity Fair Jul 10, 2019
The trouble with Wetherby is that, unlike Pinter's creepy exercises, it turns out to be that dreary thing, a wellmade play: a theatrical puzzler with a solution that, when it arrives, seems at once obvious and not particularly helpful. Go to Full Review
Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly Jan 11, 2007
4/5
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 16, 2005
4/5
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Cast & Crew

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David Hare

Director

Vanessa Redgrave

Jean Travers

Ian Holm

Stanley Pilborough

Judi Dench

Marcia Pilborough

Joely Richardson

Young Jean Travers

Tim McInnerny

John Morgan

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Wetherby

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Movie Info

Synopsis It all starts simply enough. Schoolteacher Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) invites some friends over for a dinner party. The evening concludes. The next day, one of the guests, a mysterious young man (Tim McInnerny) whom she had assumed was invited by one of her friends, returns to her doorstep. She fixes tea; he kills himself in front of her. As the police investigate the dead man's life, Jean begins to obsess over an ill-fated love affair in her own past.
Director
David Hare
Screenwriter
David Hare
Production Co
Greenpoint Films, Film 4
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 30, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.1M
Runtime
1h 43m
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