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Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth Laurier agrees to bear a child of an anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth, she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later, she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The girl's father, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes41%
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do.
76 audience votes
Key crew
- William NicholsonDirector
- William NicholsonWriter
- Christopher GunningOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sophie MarceauElisabeth Laurier
- Stephen DillaneCharles Godwin
- Dominique BelcourtLouisa Godwin
- Kevin AndersonJohn Taylor
- Joss AcklandLord Clare
- Lia WilliamsConstance
- Sally DexterMolly Holland
- Emma AmosEllen
- Maggie McCarthyMrs. Jago
- Wolf KahlerSussman
- Annabel GilesAmy Godwin
- John FlanaganRobert Ames
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Themes
englandestategoverness19th century
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