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Release Date: 2nd May 2003 (UK)
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Character: Dinah
Co-Starring: Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron & Luke Newberry
Genre: Drama & Romance
Film Length: 1h36min
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures

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Synopsis:
In 1934 after the death of her father, Madeleine, a very proper and very repressed well off housewife, invites her free-spirited sister Dinah to stay with her and her husband Rickie in her elegant London home. The couple has a young son, Anthony. Madeleine has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish bohemian painter, who is the despair of her conservative sister and their mother. Madeleine at last contrives to get Dinah engaged to a presentable man. Dinah announces her engagement at a family dinner, but later that night Rickie, who has long harbored an attraction for her, tells her to finish the betrothal.

As they spend time together their affair becomes physical, even all the way; yet when she gets pregnant they decide to leave his marriage intact. He continues life normally with Madeleine while Dinah and her friend Bridie await the birth and Rickie's arrival in France. After the baby is born stillborn, Dinah turns Rickie away and ends their affair, causing Rickie despair that he tries to hide from Madeleine; months later she receives a letter in the mail from Bridie who writes of the affair, leading Madeleine to the realization of what had been going on for quite some time. Rickie is adamant that the affair is finished, but eventually Dinah comes back into his life and he tells Madeleine that he is leaving her.

Things however, take a turn for the worst when Rickie collapses and is taken to the hospital, unbeknownst to Dinah who is still home waiting for him, Dinah is prevented from seeing Rickie and is told by her mother and Madeleine that he has decided to return to his family, while they tell Rickie that she has gone back to France. Several more months pass and the lovers eventually meet again when Dinah is leaving the apartment that was being financed by Rickie, and he discovers that she had been there the entire time and not in France. Dinah who is too hurt by things past, refuses to continue the affair and the lovers part ways for the last time. The film ends with Madeleine and Dinah finally reconciling the past and learning to forgive each other.

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Quotes:
- "And throughout all Eternity I forgive you, you forgive me"

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