The Cazalets Movie Review 2001

The upper-middleclass Cazalet family has gathered for an annual holiday at the family country home in the summer of 1937, little anticipating what will soon befall them as war looms. The family has a successful timber business run by Hugh (Bonneville), who's in a loving marriage with the critically ill Sybil (Hille), and his womanizing brother Edward (Dillane), husband to fastidious Villy (Manville). Youngest brother Rupert (Rhys) is a poor artist with a flightly second wife, Zoe (Page). There are also various children, lovers, and servants all drawn together. Based on the novels by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Distribution

WGBH/Boston, PO Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407-2284, Phone: (617)492-2777, Toll-free: 800-989-8670, Fax: (802)864-9846, Email: sarah_slater@wgbh.org, URL: http://www.wgbh.org

Available on VHS
Running time 360 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Family, Great Britain, Marriage, Parenting

Screenplay

Douglas Livingstone

Cast

Stephen (Dillon) Dillane, Hugh Bonneville, Paul Rhys, Anastasia Hille, Leslie Manville, Joanna Page, Florence Hoath, Ursula Howells, Anna Chancellor, Penny Downie, John McArdle, Jacqueline Tong, Catherine Russell

Director

Suri Krishnamma