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Another Life
“Love In Her Heart, Murder On Her Mind”
5.7 / 10• 2001• 1h 41m•NR• English
Crime
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Natasha Little
Edith Jessie Thompson
Lead
Nick Moran
Percy Thompson
Ioan Gruffudd
Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters
Imelda Staunton
Ethel Graydon
Tom Wilkinson
Mr. Carlton
Rachael Stirling
Avis Graydon
Diana Coupland
Mrs. Lester
Michael Bertenshaw
William Graydon
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Philip Goodhew's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Another Life is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
