Top cast:Violet Haggar,Walter Haggar
Director:Scott Derrickson
Genre:Drama
Region:Brazil
Year:2003
Storyline:I make an honest living.People only come to me when they""re in a desperate situation.I help ""em out.I don""t kick families out of their houses like you bums down at he bank do.To cool things down and forestall a fistfight with he other customer, Jake""s barber tells him a dirty story (a crude ethnic joke) about matrimonial "screwing" like a Chinaman (prolonged intercourse interspersed with interruptions).One of the film""s major motifs is the confining, sexually-frustrating institution of marriage.[Note: There are three married couples in he film that provide the commentary: Margaret and her abusive husband John, Professor and Mrs." When a representative from he peasants proclaims that they will go when ordered, she commands: "You shall go no longer." Krendler noted: "That smells great" and then ate a piece of his own brain when offered ("It is good").An entourage of Russians arrived on horseback at the residence of Sophia Frederica.In the main living room, the handsome lead Russian emissary from Moscow, Count Alexei (John Lodge), was being introduced to some of Prince August""s family members:Countess Cecilia, a cousin on my mother""s sideCecilia""s sister MariaMiss Cardell (Jane Darwell), Sophia""s nurse, unlocked Sophia""s upstairs bedroom door and allowed her to proceed downstairs.