Wetherby (1985) on Netflix
In Wetherby, schoolteacher Jean Travers holds a dinner party where an uninvited young man, John Morgan, speaks of his pain. He returns the next morning carrying pheasants as a gift.
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Plot summary
Jean Travers is a middle-aged schoolteacher in Wetherby, a town in West Yorkshire, who has never married. She invites married friends for dinner one evening, and among the guests is a young man named John Morgan, newly arrived and not on her list. He speaks at the table about the emotional pain he carries. The next morning Morgan returns to Jean's cottage with a gift of pheasants. While he waits at her kitchen table for tea, he shoots himself. The guest had walked in with others, each side assuming the other had brought him. Jean's friends include Stanley Pilborough, the town solicitor, and his wife Marcia, her lifelong friend.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wetherby (1985)
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- Wetherby was the first film to be shown at the Curzon West End cinema in London, opening there on 8 March 1985.
- At the Berlin International Film Festival, David Hare's Wetherby won the Golden Bear for Best Motion Picture, tying with Die Frau und der Fremde.
