Taken from the pages of Peter Turner’s journal, this is a simple story with a complex back story showing a wonderful depth to the love between Gloria Grahame and Peter Turner. Gloria Grahame, a film star from the Golden Age of movies and Peter Turner, more that 30 years her junior met casually in the rooming house they each lived in. From that meeting, a smoky friendship blossomed into a love affair that would be Gloria Grahame’s final love affair. Annette Bening played this role with sincerity and with real gentleness. Set in 1978, Peter Turner was a young actor borne to a working class Liverpool family. Jamie Bell captured the role of Peter Turner and the relationship with Gloria Grahame with heart and with sincerity. Their's was a transatlantic affair but concluded in Liverpool where Gloria Grahame had left film and was back on the stage. I don’t often cry in movies any more, but at the end, a single tear escaped from my eye. This was a beautiful, haunting movie that I would see again any day.
“It’s quite a simple story. It is just two people in a room,
really, at the end of the day. And so I wanted to
make sure that it had its own cinematic language to it.”
~ Paul McGuigan, director
Director: Paul McGuigan
Partial Cast
Annette Being as Gloria Grahame
Jamie Bell as Peter Turner
Vanessa Redgrave as Jeanne McDougall, Gloria’s sister
Julie Walters as Bella Turner, Peter’s mother
Kenneth Cranham as Joe Turner, Peter’s father
Stephen Graham as Joe Turner Jr., Peter’s brother
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