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He Knew He Was Right

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2004
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
1.8K
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He Knew He Was Right (2004)
Drama

Louis Trevelyan's refusal to trust his wife Emily destroys their marriage.Louis Trevelyan's refusal to trust his wife Emily destroys their marriage.Louis Trevelyan's refusal to trust his wife Emily destroys their marriage.

  • Stars
    • Oliver Dimsdale
    • Christina Cole
    • Laura Fraser
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    1.8K
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    • Stars
      • Oliver Dimsdale
      • Christina Cole
      • Laura Fraser
    • 14User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Oliver Dimsdale
    Oliver Dimsdale
    • Louis Trevelyan
    • 2004
    Christina Cole
    Christina Cole
    • Nora Rowley
    • 2004
    Laura Fraser
    Laura Fraser
    • Emily Trevelyan
    • 2004
    Nathan Heath
    • Little Louis
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    David Tennant
    David Tennant
    • Mr. Gibson
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    Stephen Campbell Moore
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    • 2004
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    Anna Massey
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    Fenella Woolgar
    Fenella Woolgar
    • Arabella French
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    Ron Cook
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    Claudie Blakley
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    Geoffrey Palmer
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    Barbara Flynn
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    Amy Marston
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    Joanna David
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    Bill Nighy
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    • 2004
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    the_unc

    Not bad for another costume drama....

    Once again I find myself sitting in on a Sunday night and what happens, my mum puts on BBC 1 at 9 and i think: "not another period drama...". But actually, this one wasn't so bad...

    Not because it had a decent plot or any particularly good character development but because Laura Fraser was in it. I couldn't place her at first but i soon realised it was none other than Kate the blacksmith from A Knights Tale. Not only is she considerably more beautiful than anyone else in the film (especially the french sisters...), but she can act a hell of a lot better than most of them as well. I appreciate that most actors find it difficult to act in the pretentious voices, but why do it then? Is there really a shortage of people who can speak pretentiously? Who knows, point being, Laura stood out around the rest of them.

    That piece of sycophancy aside, I think the problem with this period drama, like so many others, is its willingness to include so much plot at the expense of character development. Perhaps if there was only one girl trying to marry each man instead of half a dozen, we might understand better why she wanted to marry him. Or maybe I'm missing the point. It just seems to me that the girls always one day decide they love someone they've never spent any significant amount of time with, and thats it.

    Anyway, as I say, its better than most, so if you like this sort of thing, You'll love this one.
    7=G=

    Ranks with the better Victorian soaps

    "He Knew He Was Right" is a 4x55 minute TV miniseries adaptation which is very much like the usual Victorian melodrama fare from such notables at the Brontes and Austen. The backbone of the story is about a young man of property who marries and then becomes obsessively jealous of attentions paid his wife by her Godfather. Crisscrossing the main plot are several subplots involving the societal clockworks of middle and upper class Victorian society with all the usual scheming for peerage and property, premarital posturing, courtship and affairs of the heart, and busybody bickering among the staid and stuffy pomp of the times. Although "He Knew He Was Right" has a darkish central theme, it never takes itself too seriously and manages a very subtle and wry sense of humor as it cavorts among the many characters with charm, wit, grace, and beauty. A worthwhile watch for anyone into Victorian melodrama. (B)
    9ChristyLeskovar

    Worth Watching

    This is about the danger of malicious gossip. We have the naive young wife, played by Laura Fraser (Lydia in "Breaking Bad") who has just moved to London with her husband. A friend of her father, played by the ever mischievous Bill Nighy, comes to visit–daily. Her husband overhears gossip about the relationship and sinks into paranoid despair, made worse by a cynical private detective played by Ron Cook (Mr Crabb in "Mr Selfridge"). One of the side stories is about the hapless vicar "in want of a wife" played by David Tennant, whose facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission, so to speak. This mini-series was adapted by Welsh screenwriter Andrew Davies from the Anthony Trollope novel. I haven't read the book so don't know how closely Mr Davies kept to it. I enjoyed the mini-series.
    bmpomalley

    Quite nicely done, but one annoying attribute.

    Decent production values. Unlikely scenario: stubbornness to the nth degree. Nicely acted in most parts.

    There is a concept of 'the fourth wall' which separates the drama from the viewer. This is smashed regularly for no apparent reason, when one of the characters, suddenly turns to the camera and delivers some form of rationalization. This will add nothing to the exposition, but leaving the viewer, newly disconnected from the world in which he/she was immersed, wondering what on earth the director intended to achieve. Depending on how engrossed you were this is either amusing or infuriating. Really one of the worst (best) examples of why this is not normally a good idea.
    10keng5

    Another triumph from the BBC.

    The BBC have done it yet again; they have taken us back in time in a marvellously convincing manner. It is difficult to find fault with any aspect of this production; settings, locations, costumes and casting are all near perfect and the acting is admirable throughout. From the beginning to the end my attention never flagged for a moment; it is so jam-packed with human interest that I couldn't have enough of it. This is not a melodrama as some have said; taking into account the mores of the time it is totally realistic, with nothing over-played. Yes, it was annoying that the central character should allow his happy marriage to be destroyed by unfounded jealousy and a bit difficult to accept, until you you remember that that wasn't his only source of complaint; he was also annoyed that his spirited wife refused to submit to his unreasonable demands, something which as a Victorian husband he felt he had a right to expect. And she was not entirely blameless; she didn't have to behave in such a flirtatiouus way as to excite her husand's jealousy or to appear to enjoy so much the attentions of her philandering God-father. However, the anger and strife of the two central characters was offset by two other very happy relationships. With so many characters so well realised, well acted and convincing, I was left wanting more - much more.

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    • Release date
      • April 18, 2004 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • PBS/Masterpiece Theatre (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 真愛的代價
    • Filming locations
      • Gran Sasso, Abruzzo, Italy(stage coach scenes in the Alps)
    • Production companies
      • BBC Wales
      • WGBH
      • Deep Indigo Productions
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      • 1h(60 min)
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