To the Lighthouse (1983) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Colin Gregg

Writers:

Hugh Stoddart (writer)
Virginia Woolf (novel)

Release Date:

23 March 1983 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend...

Plot Keywords:

Lighthouse | Grief | Mother | Death Of Wife | Conversation

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Rosemary Harris	...	Mrs. Ramsay
Michael Gough	...	Mr. Ramsay
Suzanne Bertish	...	Lily Briscoe
Lynsey Baxter	...	Nancy Ramsay
Pippa Guard	...	Prue Ramsay
Kenneth Branagh	...	Charles Tansley
T.P. McKenna	...	Augustus Carmichael
Nicholas Gecks	...	Paul Rayley
David Parfitt	...	Andrew Ramsay
Craig Warnock	...	Jasper Ramsey (aged 14)
Jessie Walker Stewart	...	Cam Ramsay (aged 7)
Christopher Lahr	...	James Ramsey (aged 6)
Kristin Milward	...	Marie
Simon Dutton	...	Jasper (aged 24)
Nicola Wright	...	Cam (aged 17)

Runtime:

USA:115 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Bosigran Head, Morvah, Cornwall, England, UK

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

It may be slow, but that is the way of life here in Cornwall

This is a most excellent film, and it is great to see that the BBC choose the correct setting to film, Godrevy Lighthouse is a beautiful site and Godrevy itself a magical place, I visit it at least twice a week, and you can feel Miss Woolf's magical writing coming alive.

Yes it may be a little slow, but life has always been more laid back here, we the Cornish people see no reason for rushing around and still getting nowhere, take a tip from the film and the novel.

Sit back and enjoy life as it really should be, no mobiles, no ratrace. Good luck and try sometime in your life to visit Godrevy, its in Cornwall, near Gwithian, main town Hayle, in the UK look us up on the map.