
A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.

I sat down with Strictly Unconventional expecting a lot of tea-sipping and maybe some polite sighing. If you’re into those early talkies where everyone sounds like they’re trying to swallow a marble while talking, you’ll probably find this one interesting. ☕ It is definitely worth a watch if you enjoy watching rich pe...

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"I sat down with Strictly Unconventional expecting a lot of tea-sipping and maybe some polite sighing. If you’re into those early talkies where everyone sounds like they’re trying to swallow a marble while talking, you’ll probably find this one interesting. ☕ It is definitely worth a watch if you enjoy watching rich people realize that being rich is actually kind of exhausting. But if you need fast pacing or characters who don't talk in paragraphs, you are absolutely going to hate this movie. T..."

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