Nan
O destino e a determinação pessoal levam um pai socialista (Brendan Fraser) a unir forças com um recluso pesquisador médico (Harrison Ford). Juntos esssa dupla improvável enfrenta dificuldades extremas em sua batalha contra toda a classe médica e contra o próprio tempo na tentativa de encontrar uma cura antes que seja tarde demais. Estrelado também por Keri Russel, 'Decisões Extremas' é uma história sobre o poder do amor e da fé contra o impossível. Inspirado no livro 'The cure', escrito pela escritora Geeta Anand, ganhadora do prêmio Pulitzer.
Belle Murton (as Madaleine Moffat)
Like many women active during the miners' strike, May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) has been left to clean up the mess. The closure of the pit, a failed marriage and the community’s disintegration have shattered both her personal and political beliefs. Her teenage children (Darren Bell and Katja Roberts) are out of control. Her estranged husband (Brian Hogg) has taken up residence in the allotments. At a dance, the night before the Durham Miners’ Gala, May meets Roy Cotton (Bill Speed) the recently arrived manager of an open cast mine.
Jessie Hobson
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
Bella Bradley
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
