Overview

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.

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Cast

Rosemary Harris

Mrs. Ramsay

Michael Gough

Mr. Ramsay

Suzanne Bertish

Lily Briscoe

Lynsey Baxter

Nancy Ramsay

Pippa Guard

Prue Ramsay

Kenneth Branagh

Charles Tansley

T. P. McKenna

Augustus Carmichael

Nicholas Gecks

Paul Rayley

David Parfitt

Andrew Ramsay

Craig Warnock

Jasper Ramsey (aged 14)

Nicola Wright

Cam (aged 17)

David Daker

Mr. Trevorrow