| Release Date: | Feb 1992 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Romance |
| Awards: | 4 wins |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
| Cast: | Alan Rickman (Sinclair), Clive Owen (Richard) Saskia Reeves (Natalie) Karl Johnson (Colin) Lesley Sharp (Jessica) Kate Gartside (Paula) Karen Knight (Philippa) Niall Buggy (Geof) Campbell Morrison (Scotsman) Annie Hayes (Receptionist) Maxwell Hutcheon (Interviewee) Geraldine Somerville (Natalie's Boss) Helen FitzGerald (Scottish Girl) Christopher Barr (Noley) Gordon Salkilld (Hotel Porter) Choy-Ling Man (Maid) John Albasiny (Young Man) Marie Passarelli (Selina) Jan Winters (Doreen) |
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional. Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with the middle-class, inhibited, stuffy public scenes we see in the Richmond world into which Natalie has moved with her marriage. As the guilt and intensity of the siblings increases we seem to be heading for disaster, a forboding which increases when Natalie's husband Sinclair finds out.
