Appropriate Adult

Appropriate Adult is a 2011 British television film, first shown on ITV in two 90minute parts onandSeptember 2011. It stars Dominic West, Emily Watson, and Monica Dolan. It is based on the true story of Gloucester serial killer Fred West no relation to the actor and his wife Rosemary West. It focuses on the events between the Wests arrests in 1994 and Freds suicide in Birminghams Winson Green Prison on New Years Day 1995.

The film was directed by Julian Jarrold and written by Neil McKay. The production was headed by ITV executive producer Jeff Pope, who considered it as the concluding feature in a trilogy of films about the most notorious British murder cases of the past century the previous films being This Is Personal The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper and See No Evil The Moors Murders, which won multiple awards.Coproducer Kwadjo Dajan researched and developed the project over four years after establishing contact with Janet Leach and consulting with Gloucestershire Constabulary. The drama was filmed over seven weeks in Manchester. ........

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