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Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
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Dec 21, 1993
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Screen Two, BBC
Cast
Full credits →J
Jeanne Moreau
Lili
J
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Monro
J
Julie Walters
Monica
L
Lena Headey
Margaret
D
David Threlfall
Syl
M
Maggie Steed
Mrs Raffald
J
John Wood
Robert
G
Gwyneth Strong
Cynthia
R
Roger Lloyd Pack
Derek
C
Catherine Schell
Marie-Claire
T
Tommy Duggan
Father O'Flynn
B
Britta Smith
Mother Joseph
D
David Gant
Gallery Owner
L
Lamia El Amir
Hala
P
Pierre Sioufi
Ahmed
