Gosford Park
Gosford Park is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film, which is influenced by Jean Renoir's French classic The Rules of the Game, follows a party of wealthy Britons plus an American producer, and their servants, who gather for a shooting weekend at Gosford Park, an English country house. A murder occurs after a dinner party, and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants' and guests' perspectives.
Plot
In 1932, Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park. Among the guests are Sylvia's sisters Louisa and Lavinia, and their husbands Lord Stockbridge and Commander Anthony Meredith; her aunt Constance, Countess of Trentham; the Hon. Freddie and Mabel Nesbitt; actor Ivor Novello and American film producer Morris Weissman. Lord Rupert Standish and Jeremy Blond arrive later.
Awards
Cast
- Adrian Scarborough
- Alan Bates
- Bob Balaban
- Camilla Rutherford
- Charles Dance
- Claudie Blakley
- Clive Owen
- Derek Jacobi
- Eileen Atkins
- Emily Watson
- Finty Williams
- Frank Thornton
- Geraldine Somerville
- Helen Mirren
- James Wilby
- Jeremy Northam
- Jeremy Swift
- Kelly Macdonald
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Laurence Fox
- Leo Bill
- Lucy Cohu
- Maggie Smith
- Meg Wynn Owen
- Michael Gambon
- Natasha Wightman
- Richard E. Grant
- Ryan Phillippe
- Sophie Thompson
- Stephen Fry
- Tom Hollander
- Trent Ford