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Anybody's Nightmare is a British film of genre Drama directed by Tristram Powell with Patricia Routledge
Anybody's Nightmare (2001)
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Add to a movie listAnybody's Nightmare is a 2001 British television film starring Patricia Routledge and Nicola Redmond. It tells the true story of music teacher Sheila Bowler who was wrongly arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of her husband's 89-year-old aunt Florence Jackson in 1993 after she drowned in the river Brede in East Sussex in 1992. The film chronicles the investigation, trial and the subsequent four years of Sheila's sentence in Holloway and Bullwood Prison before her successful appeal in 1998.
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The film depicts Sheila Bowler's wrongful conviction and imprisonment for murdering her elderly aunt, and her son and daughters quest for justice, and her eventual acquittal.Actors
Patricia Routledge
(Sheila Bowler)
David Calder
(Anthony Glass QC)
Malcolm Sinclair
(Nicholas Purnell QC)
Albert Welling
(Ewen Smith)
Michael Culver
(Lord Chief Justice Bingham)
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