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The Politician's Wife
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781569387115
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Miniseries, NTSC
ISBN: 1569387117
Label: Acorn Media
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 187 minutes
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: January 07, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Flora (Juliet Stevenson in a tour de force performance) is the politician's wife. The politician, in this smart, unconventional thriller, is Tory MP Duncan Matlock (Troy's Trevor Eve). The setting is 1990s Britain. When they met, Duncan was a nobody, while Flora was from money. She married for love... and thought he did, too. Over the years, he became a powerful leader and she was always by his side. Then she--along with the rest of the nation--finds out he's been cheating. The woman (Minnie Driver) is an escort girl. Flora is devastated, but decides to put up a brave front. Secretly, however, she embarks on an ingenious plan to regain everything she's lost: pride, dignity, identity. There are no guns or knives in this award-winning miniseries (just a little nudity and profanity). Featuring a first-rate cast, including the late Ian Bannen (Waking Ned Devine) as the lynchpin in Flora's plan. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
When the tabloids scream the news that Minister of the Family Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an "escort" girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his wife. As her husband and the Tory establishment behind him expect, Flora maintains her loyal façade. But behind her public smiles, she seethes with mounting fury. Employing strange sexual games and covert political tactics, she plots to exact the ultimate revenge against her husband and the system that created him.
This powerful, award-winning PBS drama stars Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply; Bend It Like Beckham), Trevor Eve (In the Name of the Father), and Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank).
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE background essay by writer Paula Milne and cast filmographies.
"Splendidly wicked" —The New York Times
"Smashing!" —TV Guide
"A true PBS `Masterpiece'. . . a brilliant, incisive political potboiler"—Los Angeles Times
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Intelligent drama
This is a very well-written and well-directed dramawhich kept me riveted the whole time. Juliet Stevenson did a brilliant job as the Politician's wife, and Trevor Eve was wonderfully sleazy as her husband. Great show.
Rating:  - Very timely story!
We watched the entire three part (though only 187 minutes, I think) movie last night and woke up to the newest political scandal with Eliot Spitzer. How timely!
This is a very good film about Flora, married to the Minister of Family whom espouses family values. Sure enough, the movie starts with Duncan, her husband, coming home with his entourage and having to let his wife know about his one-night stand with another woman, since the press has found out and they are about to be hounded. ... Read More
Rating: - Political bedfellows
An outstanding and overlooked drama from 1995 that was originally presented as a three-part miniseries in the UK. Juliet Stevenson delivers a tour-de-force performance as Flora, the staunchly supportive wife of Duncan Matlock,an ambitious rising star in England's conservative Tory party. Scandal erupts when Duncan is caught with his pants down by the notorious British tabloid press. His fling with an "escort" girl (Minnie Driver) quickly becomes fertile ground for muckraking, as he happens to be the ... Read More
Rating: - A tale of revenge
`The Politician's Wife' is a fascinating drama, a revenge story of the first order, and a good rendition of post-Thatcher politics shortly before the fall of the Conservative Party, in part due to charges of corruption from being so long in office. This is a Channel Four production, also shown on the PBS series (heavily edited) `Masterpiece Theatre' in the United States.
This is a drama as a triptych. The first part is discovery, the second part failed reconciliation and aftermath, with ... Read More
Rating: - TREVOR AS A BADDIE
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A VERY GOOD MOVIE - MY MAIN REASON FOR BUYING THIS DVD IS THAT I AM A GREAT FAN OF TREVOR EVE, BUT I WAS AMAZED TO SEE HIM PORTRAYED AS A BADDIE !!!
WONDER IF HE REALLY IS !!!
LET US KNOW
SANDRA RENNIE
PRETORIA
SOUTH AFRICA
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