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Another Life

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

2001 |1h 41m |  Crime

Cast

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Natasha Little

Edith Jessie Thompson

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Nick Moran

Percy Thompson

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Ioan Gruffudd

Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters

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Imelda Staunton

Ethel Graydon

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Tom Wilkinson

Mr. Carlton

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Rachael Stirling

Avis Graydon

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Diana Coupland

Mrs. Lester

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Michael Bertenshaw

William Graydon

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Daniel Brocklebank

Newnie

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Elizabeth McKechnie

Mrs. Thompson

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Barbara Wilshere

Mr Carlton's Whore

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Nicholas Hutchison

Dr Maudsley

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Alan Leith

Inspector Hall

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Michael Sheard

Mr. Justice Shearman

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Bruce Purchase

Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett

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John Tordoff

John Ellis

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$500,000.00

Revenue

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