An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
Acting
Bruno Ganz turns charm into menace without trying
Writing
David Hare's theatrical dialogue cuts like glass
Direction
Hare's patient, almost cruel observation of desire
Director
David Hare
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hare wrote this during his peak as Britain's leading political playwright, applying his Marxist critique of Thatcher-era individualism to intimate relationships.
This was Bridget Fonda's first substantial film role; her mother Susan starred in Hare's earlier plays, making this a strange generational passing of the torch.
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