| Release Date | 2000-06-02 |
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| Runtime | 180 minutes |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Stars | Frances O'Connor, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Keith Barron |
| Directors | Tim Fywell, Heidi Thomas, Gustave Flaubert, Tony Redston, Ashley Johnson |
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
