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Desperate Remedies

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Original title

Desperate Remedies

Year

1993

Running time

93 min.

Country

New Zealand

Director

Stewart Main, Peter Wells

Screenwriter

Stewart Main, Peter Wells

Cast

Music

Peter Scholes

Cinematography

Leon Narbey

Producer

Avalon/NFU Studios, James Wallace Productions, New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand On Air

Genre

Drama. Romance | Gay & Lesbian

Synopsis

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Awards: 1993: Sitges Fantasy Film Festival: Best Actress (Jennifer Ward-Lealand)

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Desperate Remedies

1993

Stewart Main, Peter Wells