I don't know how much of this is from the book but it's special - a film with no bad guys. Loved the line "Good Lord - we're trapped in a Terence Rattigan play!" Adapted by Ruth Sacks. So love the last couple of minutes which - to copy Orson Welles again - would make a stone cry. (Isn't Ryan Gosling's new film something about a stone?)
Ireland co-founded the Seattle International Film Festival, then became a film buyer before branching into direction. Weirdly his online obits say he died aged 57, but in fact he was 66 (heart attack). The film is dedicated "With all the thanks and love in the world, Betty Ireland."
Joan Plowright was indeed Laurence Olivier's third wife; she only died last year, aged 95. Apart from Enchanted April I can't really think of anything else she's been in. Tea with Mussolini, Equus, Uncle Vanya (two different versions), The Entertainer.
Some of the acting veers a bit into overkill, but there's no arguing with Plowright, Rupert Friend, Anna Massey and Zoe Telford.
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