Desperate Remedies(1993)

Name: Desperate Remedies
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-11-26
Rating: 5.6

Colonial romancing and complicating...

5.6(12)1h 33m1993-11-26

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?

Director:: Stewart Main
Writers:: Peter Wells, Stewart Main
Producers:: James Wallace
Cinematographer:: Leon Narbey
Composer:: Peter Scholes
Production:: James Wallace Productions, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, Avalon/NFU Studios
Status:: Released