Desperate Remedies

Colonial romancing and complicating...

Desperate Remedies — Plot

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?

• Release date
• November 26, 1993
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Stewart Main

Desperate Remedies — Cast

Jennifer Ward-Lealand Dorothea Brook Kevin Smith Lawrence Hayes Lisa Chappell Anne Cooper Cliff Curtis Fraser Michael Hurst Willam Poyser Helen Steemson Gnits

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Kiri Mills Rose Bridget Armstrong Mary Anne