Desperate Remedies (1994)

"Colonial romancing and complicating"
Audience Score
57
Desperate Remedies
NR 1 hr 33 minApr 26th, 1994Drama
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britains empire desperations clash the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser a fortune hunter A local politician William Poyner is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes a rough but handsome Argonaut to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her But Dorothea has a lover the ravishing Anne Cooper who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover Are these remedies each desperate in its turn going to make anyone happy
DirectorsStewart MainPeter Wells
WritersStewart MainPeter Wells