![]() ![]() ![]() The Mortmains are: James ( Bill Nighy), the father who seems to be going around the bend his wife, Topaz ( Tara Fitzgerald), a long-tressed artist younger sister Cassandra ( Romola Garai), who is the narrator, and the official family beauty, Rose ( Rose Byrne), who is so impatient with poverty that at one point she runs out into the rain and announces she plans to sell herself on the streets and will borrow the train fare to the city from the vicar. He did write one well-regarded book, it is true, but now he descends into a long barren period, and in 1936, when the story takes place, the Mortmains are behind on the rent, short on food money and increasingly desperate. As the movie opens, the Mortmain family on a country outing finds a castle-small and run-down, it is true, but undeniably a castle-and the father, James, stands on the battlements and declares, "I will write masterpieces here!" He is given to such pronouncements, often followed by a sideways glance to see if anyone believes him. ![]()
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