

192 minutes
1/12/2003
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.

Sarah Lancashire
as Gertrude Morel

Hugo Speer
as Walter Morel

James Murray
as William Morel

Rupert Evans
as Paul Morel

Esther Hall
as Clara Dawes

Lyndsey Marshal
as Miriam Leivers

Matthew Beard
as Young Paul

Brittany Ashworth
as Young Miriam
Robert Angell
as Station Porter

Heather Bleasdale
as Mrs. Anthony

Stephen Boxer
as Specialist

Katherine Kelly
as Suffragette Speaker - Emily