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Perfect Strangers (2001)

Perfect Strangers poster
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rated
14
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A large family comes together at a hotel for a reunion. The story follows the interactions and hidden tensions among its members over the course of the gathering.

familialintrospectiveslow-pacedmelancholicunderstatedreflectiveunhurriedwistfulelegiac

What happens

Perfect Strangers is a television drama that ran from 10 to 24 May 2001, produced for BBC Two. It was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, and starred Michael Gambon, who won a British Academy Television Award for his performance, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Skinner, and Toby Stephens. Anton Lesser and Timothy Spall also appear. The drama received two Royal Television Society Awards and a Peabody Award. It was also nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial. The action takes place during a large family reunion at a hotel. It aired on BBC America under the title Almost Strangers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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