The Darkest Light (2000)
Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.
Directors: Simon Beaufoy, Bille Eltringham.
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Stephen Dillane as Tom |
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Kerry Fox as Sue |
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Keri Arnold as Catherine |
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Kavita Sungha as Uma |
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Jason Walton as Matthew |
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Nisha Nayar as Nisha |
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Nicholas Hope as Father Mark |
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Alvin Blossom as Caver |
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Katherine Hunt as |
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Isobel Raine as |
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Emma Palmer as |
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Romy Baskerville as |
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Sophie Jewitt as |
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Joanna Swain as |
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Imran Ali as |
| Writing | Simon Beaufoy | Writer |
| Directing | Simon Beaufoy | Director |
| Directing | Bille Eltringham | Director |
| Production | Mark Blaney | Producer |
| Production | Andrea Calderwood | Executive Producer |
| Production | Alexis Lloyd | Executive Producer |
| Production | Barbara McKissack | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Adrian Johnston | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Mary Farbrother | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ewa J. Lind | Editor |
| Production | Wendy Brazington | Casting |
| Art | Chris Townsend | Production Design |
| Art | Jason Carlin | Art Direction |
| Art | Caroline Smith | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ffion Elinor | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lorraine Hill | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tara Smith | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Julie Ankerson | Sound |