In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
Comedy
Overview
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
Cast
- Michael Maloney as Joe
- Richard Briers as Henry
- Joan Collins as Margaretta
- Nicholas Farrell as Tom Newman
- Julia Sawalha as Nina
- Celia Imrie as Fadge
- John Sessions as Terry Du Bois
- Jennifer Saunders as Nancy
- Gerard Horan as Carnforth
- Mark Hadfield as Vernon Spatch