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Why this pick
Like The Sixth Commandment, this restrained British true-crime drama finds its force in precise performances, procedural detail, and the unsettling ordinariness surrounding a real case.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE SERIES
SERIES2023 0h 58m / episode GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Follows the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and the extraordinary events that unfolded in the following years.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Timothy Spall
Peter Farquhar
Anne Reid
Ann Moore-Martin
Éanna Hardwicke
Ben Field
Annabel Scholey
Ann-Marie Blake
Sheila Hancock
Elizabeth Zettl
Conor MacNeill
Martyn Smith
Adrian Rawlins
Ian Farquhar
Amanda Root
Sue Farquhar