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Wives and Daughters
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Title: Wives and Daughters

Release Date: 28 Nov 1999

Runtime: 1h 15m

Genre: Drama

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Production Companies: GBH, Dune Films, BBC

Overview: Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.3 (36 votes)

Cast

  • Molly Gibson: Justine Waddell
  • Lady Harriet Cumnor: Rosamund Pike
  • Cynthia Kirkpatrick: Keeley Hawes
  • Mr. Preston: Iain Glen
  • Miss Browning: Barbara Flynn
  • Roger Hamley: Anthony Howell
  • Hyacinth Gibson: Francesca Annis
  • Mr. Gibson: Bill Paterson
  • Squire Hamley: Michael Gambon
  • Osborne Hamley: Tom Hollander
  • Miss Phoebe: Deborah Findlay
  • Mrs. Hamley: Penelope Wilton
  • Mr. Coxe: Richard Coyle
  • Lizzie Goodenough: Jemima Rooper
  • Young Molly: Anna Maguire
  • Mr. Bold: Richard Dempsey
  • Mrs. Goodenough: Elizabeth Spriggs
  • Wives and Daughters (Specials)

    Wives and Daughters (Season 1)

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