Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home

Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home (1998)

Genres - Drama, Romance  |   Sub-Genres - Coming-of-Age, Period Film, Romantic Drama  |   Run Time - 240 min.  |   Countries - Austria, Germany, United Kingdom  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the years between 1936 and 1941 as experienced by a brace of young and impressionable girls. Meeting in a boarding school, Judith Dunbar and Loveday Carey-Lewis became close friends, though they were miles apart in terms of social status. But when Judith's wealthy Aunt Louise perished during the 1940 London Blitz, Judith inherited a fortune, and was thus "acceptable" to Loveday's upper-crust family. Complications ensued when Billy Fawcett, the decadent middle-aged sweetheart of Loveday's married mother Diana, began to lust after the hapless Judith. Boasting a stellar cast of reliable British stage and screen actors including Peter O'Toole, former New Avengers co-stars Joanna Lumley and Patrick Macnee, and onetime Man From U.N.C.L.E regular David McCallum, Coming Home was seen through the facilities of ITV in the autumn of 1998.

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friendship, boarding-school, aristocracy, British, extramarital-affair, family, social-classes