She went to school in the ’60s, wooed suitors in the late 1800s, felt heartbreak in the not-too-distant future, and,…

Cast
Carey Mulligan (Maud Watts)Anne-Marie Duff (Violet Miller)Helena Bonham Carter (Edith Ellyn)Meryl Streep (Emmeline Pankhurst)Grace Stottor (Maggie Miller)Geoff Bell (Norman Taylor)Amanda Lawrence (Miss Withers)Shelley Longworth (Miss Samson)Adam Michael Dodd (George Watts)Ben Whishaw (Sonny Watts)Sarah Finigan (Mrs Garston)Drew Edwards (Male Laundry Worker)Lorraine Stanley (Mrs Coleman)Romola Garai (Alice Haughton)Adam Nagaitis (Mr Cummins)Finbar Lynch (Hugh Ellyn)Samuel West (Benedict Haughton)Nick Hendrix (Government Minister)
Director
Sarah Gavron
Synopsis
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
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