Mrs Brown (1997)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/Ireland/USA

Feature Film

Director: John Madden

Writer: Jeremy Brock

Cinematographer: Richard Greatrex

Composer: Stephen Warbeck

Cast: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler, Richard Pasco, David Westhead

Three years into her period of mourning, Queen Victoria sends for John Brown, a no-nonsense Scotsman who was a favourite servant of her late husband; gradually, an unlikely friendship develops, much to the chagrin of just about everyone else, in Madden’s beautifully acted and quietly moving if slightly cold and disjointed film. Iain.Stott