| Other author/creator | Reisz, Karel. |
| Other author/creator | Streep, Meryl. |
| Other author/creator | Irons, Jeremy, 1948- |
| Other author/creator | Clore, Leon. |
| Other author/creator | Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. |
| Other author/creator | Fowles, John, 1926-2005. French lieutenant's woman. |
| Other author/creator | United Artists Corporation. |
| Other author/creator | Juniper Films. |
| Other author/creator | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. |
| Abstract |
Two film actors involved in a tumultuous affair portray Victorian lovers. The skilful interweaving of these two love stories - one period, one contemporary - yields a fascinating insight into the passion and mystery that can pull two people together ... and just as easily tear them apart. The Victorian story involves a woman, ostracized by society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, who fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past. |
| General note | Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. |
| General note | Special feature: Original theatrical trailer. |
| General note | Based on The French lieutenant's woman by John Fowles. |
| Credits | Camera, Freddie Francis; editor, John Bloom; music, Carl Davis; production designer, Assheton Gorton; costume designer, Tom Rand; production manager, Chris Burt; sound recordist, Ivan Sharrock; art directors, Norman Dorme, Terry Pritchard, Allan Cameron; set decorator, Ann Mollo; sound editor, Don Sharpe; assistant director, Richard Hoult; special effects, Alan Bryce, Nobby Clarke; adagio from Mozart's Sonata in D K576 played by John Lill. |
| Cast |
Meryl Streep (Sarah and Anna); Jeremy Irons (Charles and Mike); Hilton McRae (Sam); Emily Morgan (Mary); Charlotte Mitchell (Mrs. Tranter); Lynsey Baxter (Ernestina); Jean Faulds (cook); Peter Vaughan (Mr. Freeman); Colin Jeavons (vicar); Liz Smith (Mrs. Fairley); Patience Collier (Mrs. Poulteney); John Barrett (dairyman); Leo McKern (Dr. Grogan); Arabella Weir (girl on Undercliff); Ben Forster (boy on Undercliff); Catherine Willmer (Dr. Grogan's housekeeper); Anthony Langdon (asylum keeper); Edward Duke (Nathaniel); Richard Griffiths (Sir Tom); Graham Fletcher-Cook (delivery boy); Richard Hope (third assistant); Michael Elwyn (Montague); Toni Palmer (Mrs. Endicott); Cecily Hobbs (Betty Anne); Doreen Mantle (lady on train); David Warner (Murphy). |
| Audience |
MPAA Rating: R |
| Technical details | DVD. |
| Language | Language: English, Spanish, French (all mono) ; subtitled in English, Spanish, French. |
| UPC |
027616866653 |
