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The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Where innocence is lost.

6.0(9)19931h 19m2

Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

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Language
English
  • infidelity
  • egypt
  • london, england
  • nun
  • gallery owner
  • marriage of convenience
  • art gallery
  • novice
  • women's issues
  • nunhood
  • loveless marriage
  • marriage broker

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical21 Dec 1993
  • United KingdomGB

    • TVBBC17 Jan 1993
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical13 May 1994
  • FranceFR

    • TVCanal+16 Sept 1994

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The Clothes in the Wardrobe was released on 21 December 1993.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/20/2024

    6/10

    Waris Hussein was an accomplished director so perhaps all he had to do for Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright and Julie Walters to turn up here was offer them an opportunity to sit around reminiscing whilst necking copious amounts of booze. For that, folks, is just about all that happens in this drama that sees old friends and family getting together for the wedding of "Margaret" (Lena Headey) to "Syl" (David Threlfall). …

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