21/12/1993
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Jeanne Moreau
as Lili
Joan Plowright
as Mrs. Monro
Julie Walters
as Monica
Lena Headey
as Margaret
David Threlfall
as Syl
Maggie Steed
as Mrs Raffald
John Wood
as Robert
Gwyneth Strong
as Cynthia
Roger Lloyd Pack
as Derek
Catherine Schell
as Marie-Claire
Tommy Duggan
as Father O'Flynn
Britta Smith
as Mother Joseph
David Gant
as Gallery Owner
Padraig O'Loinsigh
as Nour
Lamia El Amir
as Hala
Pierre Sioufi
as Ahmed
Maisa El Rafai
as Fatima
Sherine El Ansari
as Gypsy Girl
Annabel Burton
as Margaret as a Child
Natalie Flynn
as Jennifer
Thomas Lawrence
as Christopher
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