Overview

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.

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Cast

Jeanne Moreau

Lili

Joan Plowright

Mrs. Monro

Julie Walters

Monica

Lena Headey

Margaret

David Threlfall

Syl

Maggie Steed

Mrs Raffald

John Wood

Robert

Gwyneth Strong

Cynthia

Roger Lloyd Pack

Derek

Catherine Schell

Marie-Claire

Tommy Duggan

Father O'Flynn

David Gant

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