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Last modified: Nov. 26, 2009

Brideshead Revisited

Release Date: Friday, July 25, 2008

Director: Julian Jarrold

Starring: Emma Thompson Michael Gambon Ben Whishaw Matthew Goode Hayley Atwell

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Plot

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Plot
The movie, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, is set in the years before World War Two, when Oxford student Charles Ryder gets entangled with the Marchmains, a seductive but troubled family of Anglo-Catholic aristocrats. Whishaw plays the alcoholic Sebastian, and Atwell his enigmatic sister Julia, between whom Charles (Goode) is caught in a forbidden love triangle. Gambon will play the dissolute patriarch Lord Marchmain, and Thompson his devout and controlling wife.
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Top Cast

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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Julian Jarrold last directed Becoming Jane and Kinky Boots. The film's writer Andrew Davies last wrote The Three Musketeers and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

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Key Facts

  • Shooting begins in June on location in Yorkshire, Oxford, Venice and Morocco (05/25/07).

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PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for some sexual content
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Language
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Brideshead Revisited was released in on Friday, July 25, 2008. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Step Brothers and American Teen.

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  • Added the soundtrack release date of July 22, 2008

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