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Russell Lewis (writer)
Release Date:
20 March 2006 (UK) more
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1 nomination more
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Brilliant ITV Thriller more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Coyle | ... | Michael Sheldrake |
 | Keeley Hawes | ... | Kate Sheldrake |
| Toby Stephens | ... | Peter Tremaine |
| George Irving | ... | Miller |
 | Indra Ové | ... | Natalie |
| Marit Velle Kile | ... | Silje |
| Tony Guilfoyle | ... | Baxter |
 | Aaron Johnson | ... | Michael - aged 15 |
 | Michael Gabriel | ... | Peter - aged 15 |
| Kate Fahy | ... | Dr. Cowley |
| Rachel Heaton | ... | Michael's Mother |
 | Alexander Pownall | ... | Chapman |
| Elaine Heathfield | ... | Hospital Nurse |
| Nicola Cussons | ... | Psychiatric Nurse |
| Nicola Burnett Smith | ... | Hotel Manageress |
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120 min | UK:180 min (including commercials) (2 parts)
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This is in my opinion the best original TV drama that ITV has had to offer in a very long time.
The choice of some new (to ITV) faces was also a good choice. Richard Coyle, best know as Jeff in Coupling, played a very convincing Mike, a man haunted by his past and part of a complicated friendship with Pete, played by Toby Stephens, who plays an incredibly good, dominant, calculating and seemingly evil side of the pair. Add Keeley Hawes as the love interest and you have a very competent cast.
The story is very involved and has you guessing and second-guessing the whole way through. The clever use of flash-backs to slowly reveal the past between Pete & Mike paints the picture in your head but does not prepare you for any twists and turns in the plot and pleasingly the ending is not totally predictable. There are parallels in the story and bits that remind you of other things you have seen, but on the whole it is original.
I was drawn to watch The Best Man because of who i starred and it was very interesting to see Coyle and Stephens in more realistic roles than they would usually play. But I have to commend ITV and the production on this occasion for making a TV drama which didn't star Robson Greene or Julie Walters!! (No offence to them - there just seems to be an oligopoly of Brit actors who hold ITV TV dramas to ransom and i am glad that ITV have fought them!