The Rector's Wife

I can't improve on Christabel's review. This production is excellent in every regard - thoughtful, sensitive, moving.

Joanna Trollope's novel "The Rector's Wife" has been made into a inspirational and moving film. Centering on the family struggles of a vicar who refuses to listen to his wife and children, this film shows the slow decay of a stagnant marriage.

I was so impressed by Lindsay Duncan in the 1997 History of Tom Jones, in which she played a completely different type of role, that I searched for more of her work. This search led me to this exemplary drama, one that truly gets to the heart of a critical 'women's issue' : that of service wives, and the expectations they are quite unjustifiably subjected to with no real regard to their own wishes or desires.