Summer's Lease (1989)
Fortysomething wife and mother Molly Pargeter leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life, Molly has found escape in detective novels and art books, especially on 15th-century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Suddenly, in the small ads, she spots the details of a Tuscany villa to let, and after a viewing, she takes it for holiday.
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Cast
Susan Fleetwood
as Molly Pargeter
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Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 — 29 September 1995) was a British stage, film and television actress, best-known as a star of the classical theatre c...
John Gielgud
as Haverford Downs
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH, was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally e...
Michael Pennington
as Hugh Pargeter
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is a British director and actor who, together with director Michael Bogdanov, founded the English Shakespeare Company. Although primarily a stage actor, he is best known...
Rosemary Leach
as Nancy Leadbetter
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Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress and singer.
She was born at Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her...
Veronica Lazăr
as Baronessa Dulcibene
Veronica Lazăr (6 October 1938 – 8 June 2014) was a Romanian-born Italian actress.
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Director
Martyn Friend
