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Longford is a British film of genre Drama directed by Tom Hooper released in USA on 17 february 2007 with Jim Broadbent
Longford (2006)
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Add to a movie listLongford is a 2006 television drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by Peter Morgan.
The film centres on Labour Party peer Lord Longford and his campaign for the parole of Moors Murderer Myra Hindley.
It was produced by Granada Productions for Channel 4, in association with HBO, and stars Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton. The film was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 26 October 2006 and was an Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Broadbent won the British Academy Television Award for his role.
Longford and Hindley had both died by the time the film was made; Longford in August 2001 and Hindley in November 2002. Hindley's lover and accomplice Ian Brady, played by Andy Serkis, is still living.
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The film begins during the late 1960s (during the first premiership of Harold Wilson) at the House of Lords, with Lord Longford, a regular prison visitor, presiding over a reception for a number of ex-convicts whom he had visited and corresponded with when they were incarcerated. He receives a letter from one of the most notorious criminals in Britain, the Moors Murderer Myra Hindley, who is several years into her life sentence for taking part in the murder of three children with her boyfriend, Ian Brady.Actors
Jim Broadbent
(Lord Longford)
Samantha Morton
(Myra Hindley)
Lindsay Duncan
(Lady Elizabeth Longford)
Andy Serkis
(Ian Brady)
Robert Pugh
(Harold Wilson)
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