Between Two Women

Between Two Women (2004)

She discovered love in the most unlikely place...

Set in a Yorkshire milltown in 1957, Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten-year-old son, Victor. The family has recently moved house and Victor has started at a new school where Ellen has become friendly with his teacher, Kathy Thompson, who is keen to encourage him at art. As the friendship between the two women grows, Ellen's millworker husband, Hardy, feels increasingly alienated at home.

Date of release
2004-08-31
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Steven Woodcock

Casting

Interesting facts

Between Two Women is a 2004 historical film by British writer-director Steven Woodcock. It tells the story of Ellen, a factory worker's wife trapped in an unhappy marriage amidst the grime and industrial noise of northern England.

Background and production

The movie was shot mostly in and around Huddersfield and Rochdale during the summer and autumn of 1999. The film won Best Feature Film Award at the Hollywood-backed New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival soon after release. It has been screened in Hollywood at the Directors Guild of America. It has been shown on British TV more than 250 times.

Despite a British setting and cast, the film was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in America before the UK, to some good reviews in Variety and the Los Angeles Times.

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