High Season (film)

High Season is a 1987 British romantic comedy film directed by Clare Peploe. It is a comedy about tourism, set on the Greek island of Rhodes vacationers from rich countries taking over the most spectacular scenery at the most desirable times of the year. There are nine principal characters, a mixture of English, Greek, and a GreekAmerican. It was written by director Clare Peploe with her brother Mark.

Kath needs money her latest book isnt selling. She will be forced to give up her house and leave the island she loves unless she can find a buyer for a vase that was given to her many years earlier by a famous, now elderly art historian, Basil Sharp Sebastian Shaw, who arrives for a visit. Katherines widowed friend Penelope Irene Papas regards the tourists as enemies, an army of occupation, and battles with her son Yanni, who appreciates the prosperity the tourists bring.Rick Kenneth Branagh, a practicalminded Englishman, fixes Kaths toilet, and becomes smitten by Kath after she rewards him with a passionate kiss. His wife Carol Lesley Manville occupies herself with Byrons poetry and the touristloving Yanni. The group is completed by Konstantinis Robert Stephens, a wealthy GreekAmerican who wants to buy Kaths vase, but needs it to be declared a fake so that he can take it out of Greece. ........

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