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15 September 2007 (Hungary) morePlot Keywords:
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Preposterous Victorian Mystery more (6 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jared Harris | ... | Axel Bellmann |
 | Doña Croll | ... | Nellie Budd |
| David Harewood | ... | Nicholas Bedwell |
| Hayley Atwell | ... | Rosa Garland |
| JJ Feild | ... | Fred Garland |
 | Matt Smith | ... | Jim Taylor |
| Billie Piper | ... | Sally Lockhart |
| John Standing | ... | Webster Garland |
| Antonia Pemberton | ... | Miss Walsh |
| Owen Roe | ... | Bram Stoker |
| Julian Rhind-Tutt | ... | Alistair MacKinnon |
| Richard Clews | ... | Mr. Windlesham |
| Phil Cornwell | ... | Harris |
| Peter Whittington | ... | Society Gentleman |
| Jack Brady | ... | Sackville |
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The red paisley waistcoat JJ Feild (Fred Garland) wears is the same costume Chris Gorell Barnes wears in "The Regency House Party" (2004), and Dan Stevens (Edward Ferrars) wears for Edward's arrival at Norland in "Sense & Sensibility" (2008). moreFAQ
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It is sad when an excellent cast is wasted in something quite as preposterous as this.
Imagine a late Victorian London where a near teenage young lady styles herself as a 'Financial Consultant' and sinks a retired school teacher's entire retirement savings in a shipping line that goes bankrupt after its ship -- apparently the only one -- mysteriously disappears at sea on a calm day.
The plucky consultant resolves to retrieve the retirement funds and begins investigating in a culturally thoroughly modern, multi-cultural London, as if maybe the screen writer and casting director had failed to notice the Victorian settings and worked a modern script while everybody else did their best to recreate Victorian London without paying attention to the incongruities and anachronisms of the script.
Throw in mediums, psychic visions, mysterious foreigners, dastardly businessmen, surprisingly unintimidating goons, secret weddings and love affairs that are so complicated that even the cast seems quite unable to work out who is involved with whom until the very end.
Fans of Philip Pullman's 'Sally Lockhart' books won't mind any of it but this movie will leave the uninitiated puzzled as to their success.