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The Heart of Me is a film of genre Drama directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan released in USA on 1 january 2002 with Helena Bonham Carter
The Heart of Me (2004)
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Add to a movie listThe Heart of Me is a 2003 British period drama film directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams. Set in London before and after World War II, it depicts the consequences of a woman's torrid affair with her sister's husband. The film is an adaptation of Rosamond Lehmann's novel The Echoing Grove.
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In 1934 after the death of her father, Madeleine, a proper and repressed well-off housewife, invites her free-spirited sister, Dinah, to stay with her and her husband Rickie in her elegant London home. The couple have a young son, Anthony. Madeleine has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish bohemian painter, who is the despair of her conservative sister and their mother, Mrs. Burkett. Madeleine at last contrives to get Dinah engaged to a respectable, well-off man. Dinah announces her engagement at a family dinner, but later that night Rickie, who has long harbored an attraction for her, tells her to end the engagement.Actors
Helena Bonham Carter
(Dinah)
Olivia Williams
(Madeleine)
Paul Bettany
(Rickie)
Eleanor Bron
(Mrs. Burkett)
Tom Ward
(Jack)
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