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A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaThough he had been in the film industry as a scriptwriter for many years, this was William Nicholson's first directed film.
- GoofsAfter seven years, despite evolving fashions, neither hero nor heroine have made any change in hairdo or style of clothes. Nor do they look a day older.
- Quotes
Elisabeth: Do you know about Firelight?
Louisa: What about it?
Elisabeth: It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more.
[blows out lamp]
Elisabeth: You can do what you want, say what you want, be what you want, and when the lamps are lit again, time starts again, and everything you said or did is forgotten. More than forgotten it never happened.
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It is a sweet and touching film of a mother who lo...
It is a sweet and touching film of a mother who loves her daughter. It is better to be published in novel also, so it can be read anytime, everywhere.
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- Apr 27, 1999
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $785,482
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $135,401
- Sep 7, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $785,482
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