The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Dec 21, 1993

1h 19m

★ 5.4

Overview

Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Screen Two

BBC

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Cast

Lili

Jeanne Moreau

Mrs. Monro

Joan Plowright

Margaret

Lena Headey

Monica

Julie Walters

Syl

David Threlfall

Marie-Claire

Catherine Schell

Robert

John Wood

Nour

Padraig O'Loinsigh

Mother Joseph

Britta Smith

Margaret as a Child

Annabel Burton

Gallery Owner

David Gant

Derek

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