Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 06/22/1999
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Republic Pictures

Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement and an idealized love affair with a soldier, Susan finds jobs in the business and diplomatic worlds. Her life slowly disintegrates as she tries and fails to have a child then marries diplomat Raymond Brock (Charles Dance) and suffers further emotional decline as her rather conventional marriage eventually becomes cool and finally, alienating. Against Susan's difficulties are tumultuous events in the background -- the Suez Canal crisis and Middle East developments among them. David Hare adapted the screenplay from his successful stage play which first opened in 1978.

~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Meryl Streep - Susan Traherne
Charles Dance - Raymond Brock
Tracey Ullman - Alice Park
John Gielgud - Sir Leonard Darwin
Sting - Mick
Ian McKellen - Sir Andrew Charleson
Sam Neill - Lazar

Production:
Fred Schepisi - Director
Joseph Papp Edward R. Pressman - Producer
Bruce Smeaton - Composer
Peter Honess - Editor
David Hare - Screen Writer
Peter James - Set Designer
Tony Reading - Art Director
Ian Baker - Cinematographer
Ruth Myers - Costume Designer
Christine Beveridge - Makeup
J. Roy Helland - Makeup
David Hare - Play Author
Richard Macdonald - Production Designer
Adrian Smith - Art Director

Julia [WS]
    Jane Fonda / PG / 1977
Wetherby
    Vanessa Redgrave / R / 1985
Charlotte Gray
    Cate Blanchett / PG13 / 2001

1985 Los Angeles Film Critics Association