Katherine Lannon Movies
- 2006
Director Gillies MacKinnin and screenwriter Adrian Hodges team to adapt Victorian author H.G. Wells' intimate drama about a man who has forsaken his dreams to lead a life of suffocating mediocrity. Alfred Polly (Lee Evans) was once a man with truly extraordinary dreams, but unfortunately Alfred has chosen to walk the comfortable path of convention. Now saddled with a nagging wife (Anne-Marie Duff) and a failing business, Alfred becomes consumed by his own desperation. But no one who strives for a life of simple contentment will ever achieve anything truly extraordinary, and only when Alfred decides to take violent action will he finally realize what it takes for a gutless milquetoast to embrace his inner hero. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lee Evans, Anne-Marie Duff, (more)
Anglophiles who may have suspected that the Victorian-era woman responsible for penning world's most famous cookbook was a matronly kitchen-dweller will no doubt delight in the opportunity to learn that the woman who would become a cultural icon was in fact a vivacious journalist with little cooking experience who only lived to the age of twenty-eight. In this biopic exploring both Isabella Beeton (Anna Madeley)'s professional career and doomed relationship with entrepreneurial husband Sam (JJ Field), filmmakers offer viewers the opportunity to get a true glimpse at the woman whose fame sheltered a dark secret. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
