Sons and Lovers (2002)

"Perfectly cast, beautifully directed.  Sunday Times

Editor's Note Sarah Lancashire (WHERE THE HEART IS), Hugo Speer (THE FULL MONTY), and Rupert Evans (HELLBOY) star in this 2003 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's literary classic SONS AND LOVERS.

	Hugo Speer
	James Murray
	Rupert Evans
	Sarah Lancashire
	Beverley Mills - Editor
	Colin Towns - Original Music By
	D.H. Lawrence - Based On Novel By
	Dominic Hyman - Art Director
	George Faber, et. al. - Producer
	Hayden Matthews - Art Director
	Richard Greatrex - Cinematographer
	Simon Burke - Writer
	Stephen Whittaker - Director
	Steve Christian - Executive Producer
	Tim Hutchinson - Production Designer

Movie House Commentary 8 of 10
The most interesting thing about the novel Sons and Lovers, an early work by D.H. Lawrence, is that it is nearly an autobiography. Lawrence's own parents were severely mismatched. His father was a barely literate miner and his mother was a schoolteacher who resented the hand life had dealt her, which was to raise children in a grim, impoverished, uncultured mining community while her husband spent every day in the pits and every night in the pubs...The scriptwriter did a lot of things right. First, he did a good job of working around Lawrence's stiff, windy dialogue. He didn't make it contemporary because he wasn't doing an episode of Xena, but a recognized masterpiece that had to retain its feel. So he kept the words, but reduced their quantity, either making the exchanges terser and more natural or eliminating dialogue altogether in favor of pauses and glances whenever possible.