I haven't read the original and watched this film on TV after a long hot day so perhaps I was a little tetchy.However,in retrospect I found it tried to cram too much exposition into 90 mins.Half of this film I spent working out who was whom and realising I hadn't a clue what was going on.The main character,the supposedly conniving Lady whatever, was either trying to marry her daughter off or sponge off her rellies or intriguing with this mystery character married to SFry.If she had achieved it at the start,let's face it with her reputation as a fixer she should have, it would have saved us the rest of this, impossible to follow, mess of a film.The Martin character,a twerp, was supposed to be funny but was played as a character from a radio4 historical improv show ,therefore was not.Were peas funny in1800? I don't know, but in 2018 this film was not,decidedly so.
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