Film
American Friends
United Kingdom- Age rating
- 16
- Director
- Tristram Powell
- Year
- 1991
An education in love
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Top cast
Michael Palin
Rev. Francis Ashby
Trini Alvarado
Elinor Hartley
Connie Booth
Caroline Hartley
Alfred Molina
Oliver Syme
Bryan Pringle
Haskell
Jonathan Firth
Cable
Susan Denaker
Mrs. Cantrell
David Calder
Pollitt
Robert Eddison
Rushden - The President
Simon Jones
Anderson
Fred Pearson
Hapgood
Ian Dunn
Gowers
Charles McKeown
Maynard
Roger Lloyd Pack
Dr. Butler
John Nettleton
Groves
Alun Armstrong
Dr. Weeks
Sheila Reid
Mrs. Weeks
Charles Simon
Canon Harper
Directed by
Tristram Powell
Written by
Tristram Powell, Michael Palin
Produced by
Steve Abbott, Patrick Cassavetti
