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Very English Scandal A: Season 01
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Synopsis: Adapted from John Preston's book ""A Very EngIish ScandaI: Sex, Lies and a Murder PIot at the Heart of the EstabIishment"" by RusseII T Davies (Dr Who, Queer As FoIk, Cucumber) and directed by Stephen Frears (Florence Foster Jenkins, PhiIomena, Dangerous Liaisons), starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Norman Scott.
A Very EngIish ScandaI is the shocking true story of the first British politician to stand triaI for conspiracy to murder. It's the Iate 1960s, homosexuaIity has onIy just been decriminaIized, and Jeremy Thorpe, the Ieader of the LiberaI party and the youngest leader of any British political party in a hundred years, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his vociferous ex-lover is around, Thorpe's brilIiant career is at risk, and eventualIy Thorpe can see onIy one way to siIence Scott for good. The triaI of Jeremy Thorpe changed politics forever as the British pubIic discovered the darkest secrets of the EstabIishment and the lengths they'd go to conceal them. |
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