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Capturing Mary (2007)

  • Cast Highlights:
  • Maggie Smith
  • Ruth Wilson
  • David Walliams
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    Character: Liza
    Production Status: On DVD in the UK
    Release Date: November 12, 2007 (UK)
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Writers: Stephen Poliakoff
    Genre: Drama
    MPAA Rating: n/a

    Plot Outline:
    In this spin-off of the popular drama Joe's Palace, Dame Maggie Smith stars as Mary, a once-great writer who reminisces over her elite social life and the man - Greville (David Walliams) - who had left a devastating impression on it.

    Like Joe's Palace it is set in the same exquisite empty house, and takes the young caretaker, Joe, and new characters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past and how it can quite literally capture and destroy a person's life. It focuses on a formerly very successful woman, Mary, a once-brilliant writer and critic, reflecting on her younger self. As she looks back on her prime, remembering parties and functions with the cultural elite played out as echoes and shadows in the empty palazzo, Mary is haunted by the memory of a supremely charming but subtly evil man, Greville, who feigned friendship, but actually brought destruction.

    Gemma's Role:
    Gemma Arterton played Liza, Greville's young and naive lover.
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