Rent The Go-Between (2015)

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Synopsis:
One of the most influential British novels of the 20th Century, "The Go-Between" is a story of forbidden love, Edwardian strictures, betrayal and tragic naivety. Told from the perspective of Leo Colston (Jack Hollington), a callow twelve year old middle class boy, the story starts when he is invited by upper class school friend Marcus Maudsley to stay at his elegant family home for the blazing hot summer of 1900. Leo is instantly enthralled by Marcus's family and most especially his beautiful and wilful older sister Marian (Joanna Vanderham). When Marcus is taken ill, Leo is left to his own devices, but finds himself alone and adrift in a world of alien social mores and adult concerns.
Gauche and anxious to please, Leo is slowly and unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit as Marian pursues an illicit and passionate affair with tenant farmer Ted Burgess (Ben Batt), a man of much inferior social position whom she can never marry. Marian and Ted befriend the lonely and easily influenced Leo and use him to carry secret messages between them. Leo quickly grows friendly with Ted and worships Marian with a mixture of innocent love and incipient sexuality he barely understands. Only when he meets Hugh Trimingham (Stephen Campbell Moore), the kind, but war wounded aristocrat to whom Marian is promised, does Leo start to question his role as intermediary. As Leo's thirteenth birthday approaches, Marian's moods fluctuate and the summer heat becomes more oppressive. Wholly unable to comprehend the true implications of the adult emotions seething around him, Leo sets in motion a chain of events that ultimately prove the catalyst for a shocking tragedy that will haunt him forever.
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Directors:
Producers:
Claire Bennett
Writers:
L.P. Hartley, Adrian Hodges
Studio:
IMC Vision
Genres:
British TV, TV Dramas
Collections:
Getting to Know: Vanessa Redgrave
BBFC:
Release Date:
21/09/2015
Run Time:
90 minutes
Languages:
English
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour

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