Take a Girl Like You (2000)
Take a Girl Like You (2000)
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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.