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Red Joan (2018)

09/13/2018Thriller, History1h 41m
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To change the world, she betrayed her country

Overview

London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

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    Judi Dench

    Joan Elizabeth Stanley

  2. Cast 1

    Sophie Cookson

    Young Joan Elizabeth Stanley

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    Tom Hughes

    Leo Galich

  4. Cast 1

    Tereza Srbova

    Sonya Galich

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    Stephen Campbell Moore

    Max

  6. Cast 1

    Ben Miles

    Nick

  7. Cast 1

    Nina Sosanya

    Ms. Hart

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    Laurence Spellman

    Mr Adams

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    Nicola Sloane

    Joan's Neighbor

It may well be inspired by real events but that doesn't stop it flowing like glue most of the time. Dame Judi Dench leads a workmanlike cast with Sophie Cookson playing her younger self; Tom Hughes and Stephen Campbell Moore in the story of a suburban housewife with a treacherous secret past. Sir Trevor Nunn doesn't manage to inject any sort of pace into this and as such it just ends up being another star vehicle for the star who features sparingly. Watchable, if only because it does give you some indications as to how people who felt they were doing the "right thing" in the sixties were easy ...