A British comedy starring Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others), Felicity Jones (The Tempest) and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) sees the great granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle working as a cleaner at a family run hotel in an English seaside town. Her name is Emilia and she makes such an impression on the family that they invite her for dinner, where her unusual attitude to life and constant confidence and sarcasm have different effects on each family member, themselves a troubled lot.
Of course the father, Jonathon, wants to give her “writing lessons” (yeah, sure) and spend time with her. He’s a once successful writer who had a hit with his book The Cliff House, which brings-up in conversation at least ten times a day, to which his wife will point out that his follow-up, Mental Interiors, was a huge flop. Emilia sees right through him, but finds time to mess him around and flirt anyway. Beth, the daughter of the family is heading to Oxford Uni, but wants to rebel just a little before she starts a life of student bookwormship. She and Emilia become close, but the plot has a few tumbles in store for them (and there is a scene in which Beth ... Read more
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