Take a Girl Like You

Take a Girl Like You (2000)


  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Release Date: 2000-11-26
  • User Rating: 5.2/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 42min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
  • Director: Nick Hurran
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From 4 Ratings

Summary

Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Because of her attractiveness, Jenny's views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts. The film centres on the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the film is set.

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  • Sienna Guillory

    as Jenny Bunn
  • Rupert Graves

    as Patrick Standish
  • Hugh Bonneville

    as Julian Ormerod
  • Robert Daws

    as Dick Thompson
  • Emma Chambers

    as Martha Thompson
  • Jeff Rawle

    as Mr. Charlton
  • Amelia Warner

    as Shiela Torkingham
  • Marsha Fitzalan

    as Lady Dot Edgerstone
  • Leslie Phillips

    as Lord Archie Edgerstone
Directing Nick Hurran Director
Writing Andrew Davies Writer
Writing Kingsley Amis Novel
Production Hal E. Chester Executive Producer
Production Rebecca Eaton Executive Producer
Production Gareth Neame Producer
Production Jane Tranter Executive Producer
Sound Rupert Gregson-Williams Original Music Composer
Camera James Welland Director of Photography
Editing Paul Garrick Editor
Production Karen Lindsay-Stewart Casting
Art Donal Woods Production Design
Art Charmian Adams Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Andrea Galer Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Kay Bilk Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Christine Walmesley-Cotham Makeup Artist
Sound Jamie Caple Sound Editor
Sound Marc Lawes Sound Editor
Sound Nigel Squibbs Foley Mixer

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