Take a Girl Like You (2000)
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Rupert Graves
Patrick Standish
Sienna Guillory
Jenny Bunn
Hugh Bonneville
Julian Ormerod
Robert Daws
Dick Thompson
Emma Chambers
Martha Thompson
Ian Driver
Graham McClintoch
Kathy Kiera Clarke
Anna Le Page
Simon Evans
Horse
Bridget McConnell
Miss Sinclair
Amelia Warner
Sheila Torkingham
Nina Young
Wendy
Gareth Neame
Producer
Nick Hurran
Director
Andrew Davies
Dramaturgy / Writer
Kingsley Amis
Novel
James Welland
Director of Photography
Andrea Galer
Costume Design
Christine Walmesley-Cotham
Makeup Artist
Kay Bilk
Makeup Artist
Karen Lindsay-Stewart
Casting
Hal E. Chester
Executive Producer
Jane Tranter
Executive Producer
Rebecca Eaton
Executive Producer
Charmian Adams
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 26, 2000
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes3
Running Time52m
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
based on novel or book
Miniseries
Wiki.
Take a Girl Like You is a 2000 British television comedy series adapted by Andrew Davies from the 1960 novel Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis. It starred Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Hugh Bonneville, Robert Daws, Leslie Phillips, Emma Chambers, Ian Driver and Deborah Cornelius. It was broadcast on BBC1 in three hour-long episodes directed by Nick Hurran.