The Line of Beauty (2006)
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Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts author Allan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel for the screen with this three-part saga of love, sex, class, and money set against the backdrop of the Thatcher era. As the conservative government rises to power in the turbulent 1980s and four years of tragedy and transformation are set into motion, a young gay male living in Britain experiences everything from the ecstasy of falling in love to the agony of the emerging AIDS epidemic. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dan Stevens, Tim McInnerny, (more)
- Director(s):
- Saul Dibb
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Line of Beauty
Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts author Allan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel for the screen with this three-part saga of love, sex, class, and money set against the backdrop of the Thatcher era. As the conservative government rises to power in the turbulent 1980s and four years of tragedy and transformation are set into motion, a young gay male living in Britain experiences everything from the ecstasy of falling in love to the agony of the emerging AIDS epidemic. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 177 mins
Complete Cast of The Line of Beauty
- Dan Stevens - Nick Guest
- Alice Krige - Rachel Fedden
- Alex Wyndham - Wani Ouradi
- Don Gilet - Leo Charles
- John Standing
- Christopher Fairbank
- Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Joseph Morgan
- Kenneth Cranham
- Barbara Flynn
- Tim McInnerny - Gerald Fedden
- Hayley Atwell - Cat Fedden
- Oliver Coleman - Toby Fedden
- Caroline Blakiston
- Richard Lintern
- Carmen Du Sautoy
- Floella Benjamin
- Lydia Leonard
- Elize DuToit
- Jake Broder
- Director(s):
- Saul Dibb
- Writer(s):
- Andrew Davies
- Producer(s):
- Hilary Salmon, Kate Lewis
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