Main Cast: Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide, Brenda Bruce
Release Year: 1990
Country: UK/IE
Run Time: 88 minutes
Plot
This 19th century period drama set in Northern Ireland tells the story of Sarah (Saskia Reeves), a young woman born into poor circumstances in a devoutly Presbyterian family. Sarah and her mother Martha (Brenda Bruce) are hired to work as housekeepers by a widowed farmer, Mr. Echlin (Geoffrey Golden), who raises potatoes and sheep with his two sons, Frank (Ciaran Hinds) and Hamilton (Donal McCann). When Mr. Echlin dies in a boating accident, Martha leaves the farm and returns to her cottage, but Sarah stays behind, opting to work for Frank and Hamilton on her own terms, and takes both brothers as lovers. In time, Sarah becomes pregnant, but, despite the local scandal, she refuses to name the father and opts to raise the child on her own so that her family name will live on. Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan won the Silver Rosa Camuna Award at the 1990 Bergamo (Italy) Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Michael McKnight - Fergus; Dervla Kirwan - Young Martha; Cathleen Delaney - Agnes
Credit
Redmond Morris - Associate Producer, Consolata Boyle - Costume Designer, Thaddeus O'Sullivan - Director, Rodney Holland - Editor, James Mitchell - Executive Producer, Jürgen Knieper - Composer (Music Score), Adrian Smith - Production Designer, Bruno de Keyzer - Cinematographer, Sean Corcoran - Cinematographer, Jonathan Cavendish - Producer, David Rudkin - Screenwriter, Sam Hanna Bell - Book Author
December Bride is a film produced in Ireland in 1990 and released on 29 November 1991. It starred Saskia Reeves as the title character, with Donal McCann and Ciarán Hinds as the brothers who become her lovers in a conservative rural part of Ulster. It is based on the novel by Sam Hanna Bell.
