Heartbreak House

May 19, 1977

2h 0m

★ 0.0

Overview

Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge in dangerous flirtations, will anyone notice their drift to destruction?

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

BBC

Heartbreak House Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Captain Shotover

John Gielgud

Hesione Hushabye

Siân Phillips

Ellie Dunn

Lesley-Anne Down

Hector Hushabye

Daniel Massey

Lady Utterwood

Barbara Murray

Randall Utterwood

Donald Pickering

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

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