
The Summer House
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
- Year: 1993
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: Screen Two, BBC
- Keyword: infidelity, egypt, london, england, nun, gallery owner, marriage of convenience, art gallery, novice, women's issues, nunhood, loveless marriage, marriage broker, mother daughter relationship, croydon, oil painting, age-gap relationship, british
- Director: Waris Hussein
- Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Lena Headey, Julie Walters, David Threlfall, Catherine Schell