American Friends

Mar 22, 1991

1h 35m

★ 6.2

An education in love

Overview

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Prominent Features

Mayday

Millenium

BBC

British Screen Productions

British Screen

American Friends Trailers

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Cast

Rev. Francis Ashby

Michael Palin

Elinor Hartley

Trini Alvarado

Caroline Hartley

Connie Booth

Oliver Syme

Alfred Molina

Haskell

Bryan Pringle

Cable

Jonathan Firth

Mrs. Cantrell

Susan Denaker

Pollitt

David Calder

Rushden - The President

Robert Eddison

Anderson

Simon Jones

Hapgood

Fred Pearson

Gowers

Ian Dunn

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