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Certificate 12A

Cast Matthew Goode Ben Whishaw Hayley Atwell Emma Thompson Michael Gambon Ed Stoppard Jonathan Cake Greta Scacchi

Directors Julian Jarrold

Screenwriters Andrew Davies Jeremy Brock

Running Time 133 minutes

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh classic not so inspired on the big screen

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Plot
Middle-class Charles Ryder (Goode) is dazzled at Oxford by dissolute youth Lord Sebastian Flyte (Whishaw) and then by Sebastian’s sister, Lady Julia (Atwell), their way of life and their palatial home, Brideshead.

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