Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Acting
Carrie Coon's silent devastation vs. Jude Law's desperate charm
Direction
Durkin's cramped framing turns mansions into prisons
Cinematography
Every shadow whispers that something's deeply wrong
Director
Sean Durkin
Jude Law
Rory O'Hara
Carrie Coon
Allison O'Hara
Charlie Shotwell
Ben O'Hara
Oona Roche
Sam O'Hara
Adeel Akhtar
Steve
Wendy Crewson
Allison's Mum
Anne Reid
Rory's Mum
Michael Culkin
Arthur Davis
Tanya Allen
Margy
Tattiawna Jones
Coach
Marcus Cornwall
Spencer
Annabel Leventon
Patricia Davis
Peter Hamilton Dyer
Donald Barker
Bamshad Abedi-Amin
Dave
Oliver Gatz
Edward
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Durkin spent years researching '80s financial deregulation to capture how Thatcher-era Britain seduced American opportunists like Rory.
That excruciating dinner party where Rory performs success for his old boss while Allison silently unravels was shot in a single 12-minute take that Law and Coon improvised around.
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