Gosford Park
Gosford Park is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. It was influenced by Jean Renoir's French classic La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game).
Plot
In 1932, wealthy industrialist Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel hold a shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park. The guests include: Sylvia's sisters Louisa and Lavinia, and their husbands Lord (Raymond) 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; and latecomers Lord Rupert Standish and Jeremy Blond. Mrs Wilson, the housekeeper, assigns the visiting servants to their rooms and takes notice of Robert Parks, Lord Stockbridge's valet, who mentions being raised in an orphanage. Head housemaid Elsie tutors Lady Trentham's inexperienced maid, Mary MacEachran.
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