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Sylvia

Year:

2004

Duration:

110 min | USA:100 min | Canada:114 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

Christine Jeffs

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2004-01-16

Filming Locations: Cornwall, England, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $58,940 (USA) (19 October 2003)

Gross: $1,302,242 (USA) (21 December 2003)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jeremy Fowlds

David Birkin

Morecambe

Alison Bruce

Elizabeth

Amira Casar

Assia Wevill

Daniel Craig

Ted Hughes

Blythe Danner

Aurelia Plath

Lucy Davenport

Doreen

Julian Firth

James Michie

Michael Gambon

Professor Thomas

Sarah Guyler

Ted's Cambridge Girlfriend

Jared Harris

Al Alvarez

Andrew Havill

David Wevill

Theresa Healey

3rd Woman at Ted Hughes' Lecture

Liddy Holloway

Martha Bergstrom

Robyn Malcolm

1st Woman at Ted Hughes' Lecture

Michael Mears

Charles Langridge

Siobhan Page

Young American Girl Student

Gwyneth Paltrow

Sylvia Plath

Derek Payne

Vicar

Sonia Ritter

Midwife

Billy Seymour

Telegram Boy

Anthony Strachan

Michael Boddy (as Antony Strachan)

Katherine Tozer

Myra Norris

Sam Troughton

Tom Hadley-Clarke

Eliza Wade

Infant Frieda

Ben Want

Baby Nicholas

Joel Want

Baby Nicholas

Hannah Watkins

Tom's Girlfriend

Tandi Wright

2nd Woman at Ted Hughes' Lecture

David House

Dancer (uncredited)

James Hurn

Shepherd (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

During some of the filming, Gwyneth Paltrow stayed in Q staircase of Tree Court, Gonville & Caius College as this was minutes away from the mocked-up old street at the back of Caius.

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Sylvia Plath's daughter and literary executor, Frieda Hughes, not only refused to cooperate with the producers or allow them access to her mother's poetry, but also publicly denounced the project in a published poem of her own.

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Most of the extras in the opening scenes in Cambridge were, like Sylvia Plath herself, students of the University of Cambridge.

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Goofs

When Ted Hughes says "It reminds me of my days in Mytholmroyd" he doesn't pronounce it correctly, saying "MITH-um-royd" instead of "MY-thum-royd".

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The film begins with the time that Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met, and the trees are shown in autumn colors with falling leaves. However, Sylvia and Ted met in late winter, February of 1956, when the trees would have been bare.

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Orchestrator Nick Ingman is credited in the end credits as Nick Ingham.

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Quotes

Ted: A fucking good poem is a weapon. It's... and not like a "pop", it's a bomb. A bloody big bomb!

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Sylvia: You probably just think I'm some ghastly American bitch, don't you?

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Sylvia: Don't take such tone of voice with me!

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