Mysterious Creatures

A family bound by love, but torn apart by despair.

Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measures with tragic consequences.

• Release date
• October 29, 2006
• Runtime
• 69 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• David Evans

Cast

Timothy Spall Bill Ainscow Brenda Blethyn Wendy Ainscow Rebekah Staton Lisa Ainscow Judy Flynn Anne Buckley David Crellin David Kirwan Stephen Boxer Martyn Bowler

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