To the Lighthouse (1983)

5.2/10 • 115 min • TV Movie Drama

Overview

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.

Cast

Rosemary Harris

Michael Gough

Suzanne Bertish

Lynsey Baxter

Pippa Guard

Kenneth Branagh

Charles Tansley

T. P. McKenna

Augustus Carmichael

Nicholas Gecks

David Parfitt

Craig Warnock

Jasper Ramsey (aged 14)

Nicola Wright

David Daker

Doreen Keogh

Paula Jacobs

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