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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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)
Kristin Milward
Marie
Simon Dutton
Jasper Ramsey (aged 24)
Nicola Wright
Cam (aged 17)
