Nick is an ironworker who repairs bridges and is at heart a good man. Kitty is his wife, a dressmaker and a strong but gentle woman, together they have three daughters. Unfortunately Nick is having a torrid affair with a buxom redhead, the extrovert Tula, a secret that is about to be shared with his outraged family. Imaginative, witty, touching and beautifully performed, John Turturro's directorial debut is a delightfully quirky affair. find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...