The Summer House
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). 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 (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Director
Waris Hussein
Writer
Alice Thomas Ellis, Martin Sherman
Cast
Jeanne Moreau
Lili
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Monro
Lena Headey
Margaret
Julie Walters
Monica
David Threlfall
Syl
Catherine Schell
Marie-Claire
John Wood
Robert
David Gant
Gallery Owner
Roger Lloyd Pack
Derek
