In northern England around 1900, the worker John OBrien lives near poverty in a small house in the workers district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
1989
HD
104min
United Kingdom
English
David Wheatley
Sean Bean
Owen Teale
Anny Tobin
Mark Mulholland
Billie Whitelaw
Ian Bannen
Clare Holman
Leslie Schofield
Jane Horrocks
based on novel or book
1900s
rich woman poor man
teacher
sibling rivalry
poverty
british class system
shipbuilding
dockworker
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