Wives and Daughters (1999)
Starring Justine Waddell, Rosamund Pike, Keeley Hawes
Directed by Nicholas Renton
Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
TV show
Rating: 7.4
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Genres: Drama
Keywords: ship,sibling relationship,based on novel or book,england,parent child relationship,loss of loved one,country life,marriage,step mother,family relationships,miniseries,doctor,period drama,gossip,death,aristocrat,estate,rite of passage,secret marriage,step sister,19th century,darwinism
Cast
Molly Gibson
Lady Harriet Cumnor
Cynthia Kirkpatrick
Mr. Preston
Miss Browning
Roger Hamley
Hyacinth Gibson
Mr. Gibson
Squire Hamley
Osborne Hamley
Miss Phoebe
Mrs. Hamley
Mr. Coxe
Lizzie Goodenough
Young Molly
Mr. Bold
Mrs. Goodenough