
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
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Cast

Rosemary Harris
Mrs. Ramsay

Michael Gough
Mr. Ramsay

Suzanne Bertish
Lily Briscoe

Lynsey Baxter
Nancy Ramsay

Pippa Guard
Prue Ramsay

Kenneth Branagh
Charles Tansley

T. P. McKenna
Augustus Carmichael

Nicholas Gecks
Paul Rayley

David Parfitt
Andrew Ramsay

Craig Warnock
Jasper Ramsey (aged 14)
Jessie Walker Stewart
Cam Ramsay (aged 7)
Chris Lahr
James Ramsey (aged 6)
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