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Desperate Remedies (1993)

Desperate Remedies (1993)

Drama

Colonial romancing and complicating...

Release Date: 1993, November 26
Directors: Stewart Main, Peter Wells
Countries: New Zealand
Production: James Wallace Productions, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, NZ on Air, Avalon/NFU Studios, Avalon/NFU Studios
Cast: Cliff Curtis, Bruce Hopkins, Ian Hughes, Peter Tait, Martyn Sanderson, Matthew Sunderland, Sam Smith, Kevin Smith, Timothy Raby, Bridget Armstrong, Lisa Chappell, Michael Hurst

Overview:

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Keywords:

period drama new zealand british colonial