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The Girl (1996)

The Girl (1996)

Drama
Release Date: 1996, February 16
Directors: David Wheatley
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Festival Films
Cast: Siobhan Flynn, Jill Baker, Mark Benton, Jonathan Cake, Susan Jameson, Emily Hamilton, Stuart Piper

Overview:

Adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. In mid-19th century Yorkshire, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her. Ill-treated by Thornton's bitter and vindictive wife Anne, who views Hannah only as evidence of her husband's infidelity, she is married off to the village butcher, whose waspish mother torments her further. But through her patience, intelligence and strength, she wins her freedom and the man she loves.