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Take a Girl Like You (2000)

Take a Girl Like You poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman moves to a new town and gets involved with a charming but unreliable man. The story follows their romance and the social pressures around money and reputation in 1960s England.

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What happens

Take a Girl Like You is a 2000 British television comedy series adapted by Andrew Davies from the 1960 novel Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis. It starred Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Hugh Bonneville, Robert Daws, Leslie Phillips, Emma Chambers, Ian Driver and Deborah Cornelius. It was broadcast on BBC1 in three hour-long episodes directed by Nick Hurran. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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