Main Cast: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob, Tchéky Karyo, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Release Year: 1999
Country: UK
Run Time: 93 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Director Hugh Hudson, who made his directorial debut with the award-winning Chariots Of Fire, returns to the theme of British life in the 1920s in the bittersweet family drama My Life So Far. Gamma Macintosh (Rosemary Harris) is the matriarch of a family that inhabits Harewood House, a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Besides Gamma, the adult heads of the household are her daughter, Moira (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and Moira's husband Edward Pettigrew (Colin Firth), a mildly eccentric inventor who tinkers with experimental automobiles and airplanes. Moira and Edward have two children, son Fraser (Robbie Norman) and daughter Elspeth (Kelly Macdonald). One day Moira's brother Morris (Malcolm McDowell) stops by with his fiancée, a French woman named Heloise (Irene Jacob), whose beauty and sophistication turns Edward's head and stirs new emotions in young Fraser. Filmed in 1997, My Life So Far remained in the editing room until 1999, when it was shown in a special benefit screening at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Malcolm McDowell - Morris Macintosh; Kelly MacDonald - Elspeth Pettigrew; Robbie Norman - Frarser Pettigrew; Kirstin Coulter Smith
Credit
John Frankish - Art Director, Patsy Pollock - Casting, Emma Porteous - Costume Designer, Bill Westley - First Assistant Director, Hugh Hudson - Director, Scott Thomas - Editor, Bob Weinstein - Executive Producer, Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer, Paul Webster - Executive Producer, Howard Blake - Composer (Music Score), Andy Harris - Production Designer, Bernard Lutic - Cinematographer, David Puttnam - Producer, Steve Norris - Producer, Ken Weston - Sound/Sound Designer, Rudi Buckle - Sound/Sound Designer, Denis Forman - Book Author
My Life So Far is a 1999 film about the year in the life of a ten-year old Scottish boy. It was directed by Hugh Hudson, with screenplay by Simon Donald. The film is set in 1927 and is based on the memoirs of Denis Forman, a British television mogul.
