The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)
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31% of users liked it
(523 ratings)
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to a Pretty family member who tragically died in an accident 8 years ago both baffles and unsettles the family.
- Directed By
- Colin Nutley
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 7, 2004 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Jake Wilson, Urban Cinefile
This tragic-comic-historical-pastoral romance scrapes the bottom of all its generic barrels, to say nothing of being extremely badly directed by Colin Nutley, an Englishman based in Sweden whose many previous films I've managed not to see.
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Cast
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Helena Bergström
as Nancy Ackerman
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Lorcan Cranitch
as Harold Bradley
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Lindsay Duncan
as Audrey Pretty
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Tim Dutton
as Father Talbot
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Rolf Lassgård
as Nils
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Natasha Little
as Peggy Pretty
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Elizabeth Spriggs
as Laura Pretty
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Peter Vaughan
as Edward Pretty
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Rollo Weeks
as Jack Bradley
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Eileen Atkins
as School Matron
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Simon Day
as Headmaster
- Mark Pickering
- Bohdan Poraj
- John Joe Regan
- James Hawkins
- Alexander Goggins
