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Recommended Mapp & Lucia (Complete)

Donald McWhinnie, 1985

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Mapp & Lucia is perhaps best described as an affectionate salute to British eccentricity. It is packed with larger than life characters, who treat seemingly innocuous occasions such as village fetes as if they were matters of life and death. Geraldine McEwan (currently incarnating Miss Marple) stars as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas, an unconventional widow who swoops upon her quaint village of Tilling, where she soon ousts Miss Mapp (Prunella Scales) as the reigning party hostess. Lucia and her fey companion Georgie (Nigel Hawthorne) are a seemingly unsinkable pairing, but Mapp doesn't give up that easily. McEwan and Hawthorne are a superb double-act. Babbling in baby-talk (using "me" instead of "I", "ickle" instead of "little"), their feigned innocence masks a rivalry, which comes to the fore in a hilarious piano duet which soon turns into a duel. Scales also excels as Lucia's formidable opponent, her faux bonhomie failing to conceal her self-centred rudeness. A stock of excellent character actors fill in the numerous supporting roles, but it's the joyous moments when Mapp and Lucia lock horns that make this wonderful series such a classic of British TV.

MovieMail on 1st April 2006

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Film Details

Director

Donald McWhinnie

Year

1985

Country

UK

Cast

Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne, Geraldine McEwan

Technical Details

Certificate

PG

Length

500 mins

Label

NWORK

Format

DVD Colour

Region

2

Aspect

1.33:1

Cat No

7952474

Main Language

ENGLISH

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