A HANDFUL OF DUST

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• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: Lady Brenda Last is bored. Her husband, Tony, may be rich. They may have the magnificent country estate of Hetton. They may have a beautiful child and a marriage that is the envy of many. But something is missing.; ; So when John Beaver, a penniless but handsom young man comes to stay, it isn't long before Lady Brenda finds herself in the back of a taxi in his arms.; ; Falling into the affair is easy. Falling out of it proves more difficult as Brenda finds herself more and more deeply immersed in her search for excitement. When an unexpected tragedy strikes, it delivers a fatal blow to the marriage. But Brenda is unprepared for the lengths her husband will go to to keep what is his. Their struggle will lead her to the brink of insanity, and her husband to the end of the earth.; ; Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, author of 'Brideshead Revisited,' A HANDFUL OF DUST reveals the brittle fragility of the well-mad marriage and the ironic tragedy of the unmade bed in this tense secual drama of 1930's England.
• Cast: James Wilby, Giles Bickford, Marsha Fitzalan, Moyra Fraser, Timothy Bateson, Christopher Godwin, Hugh Simon, Maureen Bennett, Tamsin Olivier, Annabel Brooks, John Junkin, Alice Dawnay, Cathryn Harrison, Matthew Ryan, Alan Hay, Wiliam Gonzalez, Julian Infante, Jeannette Baillie, Peggy Aitchison, Pip Torrens, Stephen Fry, Graham Crowden, John Quentin, Kate Percival, Anjelica Huston, Rupert Graves, Kristin Scott Thomas, Beatie Edney, Jackson Kyle, Richard Beale, Alec Guinness, Judi Dench, Tristram Jellinek, Roger Milner, Richard Leech, Jeanne Watts, Norman Lumsden, Charles Sturridge, Derek Granger, Tim Sullivan, Evelyn Waugh
• Director: Charles Sturridge
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: HBO Home Video
• Media Format: Movie