I Capture the Castle (film)

I Capture The Castle is a 2003 British film directed by Tim Fywell. It is based on the 1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith, with the screenplay written by Heidi Thomas. The film was released in the UK onMay 2003.

The film follows 17yearold Cassandra Mortmain Romola Garai, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle. The characters include Cassandras father Bill Nighy, a writer who hasnt written anything in the twelve years since the spectacular success of his first novel Cassandras exquisite older sister Rose Rose Byrne who rails against their fate and hopes to marry for money and their bohemian stepmother, Topaz Tara Fitzgerald, an exmodel still apt to sunbathe in the nude. The possibility of salvation seems to loom in the form of their wealthy American landlord Simon Cotton Henry Thomas and his brother Neil Marc Blucas. Although Simon initially turns her away, Rose is determined to make him fall in love with her and succeeds. A wedding is arranged and Cassandra appears left on the sidelines. But events spiral out of control, and before the summer ends many expectations will have been overturned.Parts of the film were shot in Laxey film studio on the Isle of Man. Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, supplied exteriors for the castle, and Eltham Palace in London some interiors. ........

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