Hooper (Anthony Hopkins) is a man seething with anger. His wife( Harriet Walter) has divorced him. He is permitted one day a week with his child. Fifteen years ago he was an outspoken advocate of women's liberation and now he feels he is a victim of the women's movement - a man without rights. At a party one night he meets a man whose ex-wife has just announced her plans to leave for Australia with their child and with her lesbian lover. Hooper is galvanized. He persuades the man to sue for custody supplies legal costs out of his own pocket and becomes obsessed with... his belief that the women's movement has created a wave of discrimination against men. A very rare film that asks hard and fundamental questions about the role of men: such as is it ever too late for a man to learn that he can never love himself until he first learns to love somebody else? [show more]
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Anthony Hopkins and Jim Broadbent play two men, recently estranged from their wives and children, and trying to come to terms with their sense of frustration and despair. Directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings And A Funeral), this moving drama is packed with a rich array of stars including; Joanna Whalley, Harriet Walters, Stephen Fry, Simon Callow and Miriam Margolyes.
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