Released
Desperate Remedies
November 26 1993 (about 31 years ago)Rating
57
Based on
10 reviews
Colonial romancing and complicating...
- Directors: Stewart Main, Peter Wells
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 33 m
- Country: New Zealand
- Companies: James Wallace Productions, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, Avalon/NFU Studios
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
