Summer's Lease (1989)
Summer's Lease (1989)
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Plot.
Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.
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Cast & Crew.

Susan Fleetwood
Molly Pargeter

John Gielgud
Haverford Downs

Michael Pennington
Hugh Pargeter

Rosemary Leach
Nancy Leadbetter

Caroline Waldron
Henry Pargeter

Veronica Lazăr
Baronessa Dulcibene

Martyn Friend
Director

Tim Harvey
Production Design

Denis Lill
Ken Corduroy

Remi Adefarasin
Director of Photography

Diana Brookes
Script Supervisor

Aad Wirtz
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Colin Rogers
Producer

Justin Amsden
Sound Editor

Suzanne Hay
Sam Pargeter

Nigel Hess
Original Music Composer
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
based on novel or book
miniseries
1980s
Miniseries
Wiki.
Summer's Lease is a British television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC2 in 1989. It is based on John Mortimer's novel of the same title, adapted by the author. Sir John Gielgud won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance and the soundtrack, composed by Nigel Hess was awarded the Television and Radio Industries Club award for best television theme.
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