Set in the 50s, and adapted from the critically acclaimed 1961 book of the same name by Richard Yates, this is a tale of a couple trying to free themselves from their conformist suburban Connecticut lifestyle, where living the 'American Dream' has become akin to a lifeless existence. 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...