My Life So Far

My Life So Far is a 1999 film about a year in the life of a tenyearold Scottish boy. It was directed by Hugh Hudson, with screenplay by Simon Donald. The film is set in 1927 and is based on the memoirs of Denis Forman, a British television executive.

The family is headed by the maternal grandmother MacIntosh Rosemary Harris, affectionately known as Gamma, whose decisions are to be obeyed without question. Gammas son Morris Malcolm McDowell left home to build a career for himself and succeed as a welltodo businessman while her younger daughter Moira Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio followed the traditional route she fell in love with Edward Pettigrew Colin Firth, gave up a promising chance at becoming an opera singer, settled down at her family estate and raised a large family.Edward is a typical country gentry of his time owns a minor business turning sphagnum moss into medical dressings, a pious man and defender of traditional values gives a speech at every Sunday service, loves and listens only to Beethoven and has a passion for inventions and mechanical improvements all over the estate. All of which are laughed at by Morris, who lives in London but comes back to visit often, as he is competing with Edward to inherit the estate after Gamma passes away the two can barely conceal their loathing for each other. ........

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