The Winter Guest Movie Review
The Winter Guest Review
"The Winter Guest" Overview
Rating: R
1997
Cast and Crew
Director : Alan RickmanProducer : Steve Clark-Hall,Ken Lipper,Edward R. Pressman
Screenwiter : Sharman MacDonald,Alan Rickman
Starring : Emma Thompson,Phyllida Law,Gary Hollywood,Arlene Cockburn,Sheila Reid,Sandra Voe,Douglas Murphy,Sean Biggerstaff,Tom Watson
Extremely chatty, Alan Rickman's directorial debut is long in the tooth and short in everything else. While the photography of a remote Scottish fishing village is to die for, the lack of anything happening in the plot (involving eight natives from kids to the elderly and their various relationships) -- or even much music -- is a real letdown. Most notably disappointing is a shorn Emma Thompson, who spends the first third of the movie in the bathroom. Bo-ring!
Reviewer: Christopher Null
