Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780779250530
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0779250532
Label: Bfs Entertainment
Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Bfs Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 109660
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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Rating: - Pompous twit
Admirers of the work of the late Sir Alec Guinness will perhaps find EDWIN satisfactorily droll.
Guinness plays Sir Fennimore Truscott, a curmudgeonly and recently retired High Court judge left to stew in his own pomposity on his country estate with his wife, Lady Margaret (Renee Asherson). Used to a lifetime of judging criminal behavior, Truscott can't let it go. His current obsession, presented in asides to the viewer as if giving evidence to a jury, is the case against his next door neighbor of many years, Tom Marjoriebanks (Paul Rogers), whom Sir Fennimore suspects of "rogering" Lady Margaret many years before in the garden conservatory. About the time she became pregnant with the Truscott's now grown son, Edwin, actually. It doesn't mollify Truscott that Tom is constantly at his wife's side helping out with kitchen and garden chores. And the Judge has a patrician contempt for Marjoriebanks, a common pottery maker. (Tom would say "craftsman of fine ceramics.")
When Sir Fennimore confronts Tom with his suspicions, the latter replies incredulously - but perhaps not incredulously enough - with observations about Edwin's artistic and sensitive nature. More akin to Tom's own, you think? In any case, Truscott now begins to doubt his paternity, and his indignation is further fueled. Unfortunately, the viewer never gets to meet Edwin, so one is left to Truscott's own mental contortions and dry comments.
My wife gave up about two-thirds in, bored by the slow pacing ... Read More
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