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Release Date
• USA: Dec 26, 2001
• UK: 7 Nov 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 25, 2002
• R2: 23 Sep 2002
Budget $15,000,000
Official Website:
Gosford Park Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for some language and brief sexuality.
Running Time
2 hours, 17 minutes
Country UK, USA, Germany, Italy
Studio Capitol Films, Chicagofilms, Entertainment Film Distributors, Film Council of a Sandcastle 5, Medusa Produzione
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama, Comedy, Murder, Period Piece, Suspense, Blackmail, Infidelity, Investigation
Tagline: Tea At Four. Dinner At Eight. Murder At Midnight.
Plot: In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE RULES OF THE GAME and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, with a midpoint shift to an Agatha Christie whodunit. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend shooting party at the estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas). Mary (Kelly Macdonald), a fresh-faced, naïve new maid accompanies the sniping Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), and is shown the ropes by the house's worldly head housemaid, Elsie (Emily Watson). While the masters engage in various financial and sexual intrigues upstairs, the world downstairs has its own curiosities--namely, the predatory valet to a Hollywood producer, Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe), and the mysterious, cagey servant, Robert Parks (Clive Owen). Mary soon discovers that the image of servants living vicariously through their masters is a false one, and that the upstairs-downstairs worlds are often shockingly interwoven. With GOSFORD PARK, Altman delivers a fascinating, blackly comic look at the
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 | Bob Balaban
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost World, The Mexican |
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| Cast |
Maggie Smith
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Hook, Sister Act |
 | Michael Gambon
Sleepy Hollow, The Insider, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
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 | Geraldine Somerville
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Haunted |
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 | Bob Balaban
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost World, The Mexican |
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Patrick Doyle
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bridget Jones's Diary, Donnie Brasco |
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