2005 · tv-movie · drama · revenge
Gideon's Daughter
Directed by Stephen Poliakoff1h 45m2005
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.
Our read: Gideon's Daughter (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded tv-movie · drama · revenge entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle tv-movie / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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