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A Handful of Dust

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A Handful of Dust
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PG,1hr 54min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
June 24, 1988
Director:
Charles Sturridge
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves  ...more
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's hospitality by having an affair with Scott Thomas, while Wilby gamboles about his estate without a clue of what is going on. Wilby's cloistered world comes tumbling down when Scott Thomas coolly demands a divorce, ... Full Synopsis
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Rebecca Flint Marx, AMG Review
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel, this very British film about how adhering to very British values can lead one on a straight and unrelenting path to hell serves up the same kind of manors and manners as Brideshead Revisited (also directed by Sturridge), but it gives equal exposure to the rot and ruin lurking beneath. A Handful of Dust is a surpassingly nasty film, in which people do rotten things ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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James Wilby
Tony Last
Kristin Scott Thomas
Brenda Last
Rupert Graves
John Beaver
Anjelica Huston
Mrs. Rattery
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