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GOSFORD
PARK
Robert
Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations
via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining
storylines.
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GOSFORD PARK
(2001)
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This page was last updated on May 21, 2005
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Credits
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Directed
by Robert Altman
Writing credits Julian Fellowes
Eileen
Atkins .... Mrs. Croft
Bob Balaban .... Morris Weissman, Esq
Alan Bates .... Jennings
Claudie Blakley .... The Hon. Mrs. Freddie Nesbitt
Charles Dance .... Raymond, Lord Stockbridge
Stephen Fry .... Inspector Thompson
Michael Gambon .... Sir William McCordle, Bart
Richard E. Grant .... George (1st Footman)
Tom Hollander .... Lieutenant Commander
Anthony Meredith
Derek Jacobi .... Probert (Sir William's Valet)
Kelly Macdonald .... Mary Maceachran
Helen Mirren .... Mrs. Wilson
Jeremy Northam .... Ivor Novello, Esq
Clive Owen .... Robert Parks (Stockbridge's Valet)
Ryan Phillippe .... Henry Denton, Esq
Camilla Rutherford .... Isabelle McCordle
Maggie Smith .... Constance, Countess of Trentham
Geraldine Somerville .... Louisa, Lady Stockbridge
Kristin Scott Thomas .... Lady Sylvia McCordle
Sophie Thompson .... Dorothy
Emily Watson .... Elsie (Head Housemaid)
Natasha Wightman .... Lady Lavinia Meredith
James Wilby .... The Honnorable, Freddie Nesbitt
Produced
by Robert Altman (producer), Joshua Astrachan (co-producer), Bob
Balaban (supervising producer), Jane Barclay (executive producer),
Julian Fellowes (associate producer), Jane Frazer (co-producer),
Sharon Harel (executive producer), Robert Jones (executive producer),
Hannah Leader (executive producer), David Levy (producer)
Original music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn
Film Editing by Tim Squyres
MPAA:
Rated R for some language and brief sexuality.
Runtime: 137
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Gosford Park
(2001 film) Patrick Doyle
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Tea
at four. Dinner at eight. Murder at midnight.
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STUDIO
SYNOPSIS:
In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and
master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple
characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly
in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film
recalls both THE RULES OF THE GAME and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, with
a midpoint shift to an Agatha Christie whodunit. In November 1932,
a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend shooting party at
the estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and Lady Sylvia
(Kristin Scott Thomas). Mary (Kelly Macdonald), a fresh-faced, naïve
new maid accompanies the sniping Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith),
and is shown the ropes by the house's worldly head housemaid, Elsie
(Emily Watson). While the masters engage in various financial and
sexual intrigues upstairs, the world downstairs has its own curiosities--namely,
the predatory valet to a Hollywood producer, Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe),
and the mysterious, cagey servant, Robert Parks (Clive Owen). Mary
soon discovers that the image of servants living vicariously through
their masters is a false one, and that the upstairs-downstairs worlds
are often shockingly interwoven. With GOSFORD PARK, Altman delivers
a fascinating, blackly comic look at the treacherous yet poignant
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