Cause Celebre
by John Gorrie
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Actor: David Morrissey, Harry Andrews, Helen Mirren, Norma West, Oliver Ford DaviesDirector: John Gorrie
Cinematographer: Malcolm Harrison
Cinematographer: Trevor Vaisey
Editor: Kevin Waters
Producer: John Rosenberg
Writer: Ken Taylor
Writer: Terence Rattigan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
Movie Reviews of Cause Celebre
Movie Review: Uneven is the Keyword
Summary: 2 Stars
Helen Mirren can always dazzle; all these Brits are so well trained but this vehicle is not up to their talents. David Morrissey looks promising, but is uneven in this part. He's good playing innocent but I didn't buy his character's evil side. It may be the fault of the screen play. They managed to take an interesting (true) story and totally muddle it. I'd love to see this re-made for the big screen.
Summary of Cause Celebre
The true story of Love, Lust and Murder that obsessed a nationIt's 1935. The headlines scream "murder most foul." All England is boiling with fury - scandalized by the "crime of the decade." Cause C?l?bre is an emotionally complex real-life drama of love, betrayal, guilt and obsession spun hopelessly out of control. Did Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) - as she confessed - bludgeon her ailing husband to death? Or, was it Bowen, her 18-year old lover - desperately driven by their affair into a fit of jealous rage?
Whatever the truth, as an upper class wife and mother, she is already condemned by an outraged public for the unforgivable crime of loving a boy only half her age. Into this maelstrom of emotion, facing Alma's confession and the public's wrath steps T.J. O'Connor (David Suchet), the distinguished, brilliant attorney for the defense fiercely determined to save his client.
Helen Mirren weaves a spellbinding web as Alma Rattenbury, a fragile, free-spirited woman caught in a passion she is helpless to control.
The magnificent Helen Mirren soars through British TV movie Cause C?l?bre, a true-life story of a scandalous murder in 1930s England. Soon after Alma Rattenbury (Mirren) hires an 18-year-old named Bowman (David Morrissey) to help around the house, she falls into an affair with the much younger man. Madly in love with her and jealous of her much older husband, Bowman rashly murders the elderly man. When the lovers are put on trial, the tabloids rant less about the murder and more about the sin of Alma's middle-aged passion. The storyline of Cause C?l?bre contains few surprises, but it's skillfully written--the mordant wit of Alma's and Bowman's lawyers blithely discussing how each intends to blame the other's client is delicious--and wonderfully acted by Morrissey; David Suchet as Alma's celebrated lawyer, T. J. O'Connor; and especially Mirren, whose intelligence, sexiness, and empathy make her every scene fascinating. --Bret Fetzer
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