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Another Life (2001)

Another Life (2001)

Crime

Love In Her Heart, Murder On Her Mind

Release Date: 2001, June 15
Directors: Philip Goodhew
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Boxer Films, Alibi Pictures, Arts Council of England
Cast: Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Moran, Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Sheard, Michael Bertenshaw, Diana Coupland, Bruce Purchase, Natasha Little, John Tordoff, Richard Mayes, Rachael Stirling

Overview:

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

Keywords:

historical drama tragic love true crime