The Line of Beauty

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Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts author Allan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel for the screen with this three-part saga of love, sex, class, and money set against the backdrop of the Thatcher era. As the conservative government rises to power in the turbulent 1980s and four years of tragedy and transformation are set into motion, a young gay male living in Britain experiences everything from the ecstasy of falling in love to the agony of the emerging AIDS epidemic. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Drama, Television
Directed By:

Saul Dibb
In Theaters:

Apr 10, 2006 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Oct 17, 2006
Runtime:

179 minutes

Cast

Dan Stevens (IV)
as Nick Guest

Tim McInnerny
as Gerald Fedden

Alice Krige
as Rachel Fedden

Hayley Atwell
as Cat Fedden

Alex Wyndham
as Wani Ouradi

Oliver Coleman
as Toby Fedden

Don Gilet
as Leo Charles

Caroline Blakiston

John Standing

Richard Lintern

Christopher Fairbank

Carmen du Sautoy

Nikki Amuka-Bird

Floella Benjamin

Joseph Morgan

Lydia Leonard

Kenneth Cranham

Elize DuToit

Barbara Flynn

Jake Broder

Elize du Toit

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Critic Reviews for The Line of Beauty

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Sex, lies and privilege

Feb 10, 2007 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

S. James Wegg
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Audience Reviews for The Line of Beauty

Jan 18, 2009

Well acted BBC drama of a time of great change in England, one of the problems is that most of the characters are so unsympathic and unlikeable that its difficult to engage with the story and the ending is awfully abrupt,

jay n Super Reviewer