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Minnie Driver Tom Wilkinson Harriet Walter Jonathan Rhys Meyers Florence Hoath Arlene Cockburn Emma Bird

The Governess 1998

115 minutes

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.

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