An uninvited guest appears at a small dinner party given by a schoolteacher in a middle-class Yorkshire town and mysteriously commits suicide the next day.
Lonely teacher Jean Travers hosts a dinner party at her home one evening. In addition to the two couples she has invited, a young stranger named John Morgan also shows up. Everything seems just fine but, the next day, John returns to the home and shoots himself. Policeman Mike Langdon then arrives to investigate the mysterious suicide.
Meanwhile, as Jean also tries to figure out why it happened, her mind turns back to a tragedy earlier in her life involving a young man she was in love with...
Shown at the Berlin Film Festival, in competition, February 18, 1985.
Released theatrically in New York City July 19, 1985.
Color by Technicolor.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.78
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: DIRECTOR'S INTRODUCTION
Text/Photo Galleries:
Biographies
Filmographies
Additional Release Material:
1. Essay By Film Critic Brain McFarlane
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Review 1:
"...Darkly brilliant...WETHERBY gives fresh hope for a revived British cinema..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.C1 09/06/1985
Review 2:
"...WETHERBY implies endurance and solidity..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.140-1 03/01/1985
Review 3:
"...Vivid....Hare has assembled a superb cast and its ensemble work is very fine..."
Source: New York Times
p.C12 07/18/1985
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