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Desperate Remedies

Colonial romancing and complicating...

★ 5.7 (10 votes) | 1993 | 1h 33m
Drama
Overview

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date November 26, 1993
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production James Wallace Productions, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, Avalon/NFU Studios

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