Enchanted April (1992)
- Starring:
- Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mike Newell
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
- Category:
- Romance
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Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a bottomless reserve of brilliant dialogue. Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies: the high-flown aging widow Joan Plowright, and elegant upper-crust beauty Polly Walker) whom they've never met. Under the spell of an exotic new location, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreation of European manners and mores in the 1920s, Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 93 mins
Complete Cast:
- Miranda Richardson - Rose Arbuthnot
- Josie Lawrence - Lottie Wilkins
- Polly Walker - Lady Caroline Dester
- Jim Broadbent - Frederick Arbuthnot
- Stephen Beckett - Jonathan
- Matthew Radford - Patrick
- Adriana Facchetti - Francesca
- Joan Plowright - Mrs. Fisher
- Alfred Molina - Mellersh Wilkins
- Michael Kitchen - George Briggs
- Davide Manuli - Beppo
- Anna Longhi - Costanza
- Neville Phillips - Vicar
- Vittorio Duse - Domenico
- Director(s):
- Mike Newell
- Writer(s):
- Elizabeth Von Arnim, Peter Barnes
- Producer(s):
- Ann Scott, Simon Relph, Mark Shivas
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Adult Situations, Suitable for Children)
- Categories:
- Romance
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- 1992 - Enchanted April - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- 1992 - Enchanted April - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- 1992 - Enchanted April - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Supporting Actress
