讲述了1920年代英国海滨小镇的一桩荒诞新闻，当地伊迪丝·斯旺和爱尔兰移民罗斯是邻居，当伊迪丝和其他居民开始收到匿名信件时，罗斯被认为是始作俑者。然而，当以警官格拉迪斯·莫斯为首的镇上妇女们开始自行调查这起事件时，她们注意到事情有些不对劲，罗斯可能根本不是罪魁祸首。
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奥利维娅·科尔曼（Olivia Colman），1974年1月30日出生于英国诺福克郡诺维奇，毕业于布里斯托老维克戏剧学校，英国女演员。2016年，出演电视剧《夜班经理》。2019年1月，凭借作品《宠儿》获得第8届澳洲电影与电视艺术学院国际奖最佳女主角。当地时间2019年1月6日，凭借《宠儿》荣获第76届美国电影电视金球奖电影类-音乐/喜剧电影最佳女主角奖。2019年凭电影《宠儿》获得第91届奥斯卡金像奖最佳女主角奖。2019年12月，被“卫报”评为 “2019年度十佳女演员”。2019年11月在历史剧《王冠第三季》中饰演中年伊丽莎白二世女王。
1942年12月4日出生于伦敦，《哈利·波特与混血王子》中的庞弗雷夫人，曾在电影《BJ单身日记》里扮演布里奇特的母亲，还和《哈利·波特》小说英国版电子书播讲者Stephen Fry以及《哈利·波特》电影中飞行课教师胡奇夫人的扮演者佐伊·沃纳梅克一起出演过电影《王尔德》。
艾琳·阿特金斯（Eileen June Atkins），1934年6月16日出生于英国伦敦查普顿，英格兰最知名的舞台演员之一。艾琳阿特金斯都一直是皇家莎士比亚公司和伦敦20世纪60年代以来，西尾短。她偶尔也出现了电影和电视，她已作为一个编剧各种媒介大量贡献，为著名的系列楼上楼下和埃利奥特和弗吉尼亚伍尔夫的达罗卫夫人深受欢迎改编楼最显着的。
Spall, third of four sons, was born in Battersea, London; his father, Joe, was a postal worker, and his mother, Sylvia, a hairdresser. He trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year. His brother, Matthew, is studio director of the computer games company Morpheme. Initially notable in the United Kingdom for playing the gormless Barry Taylor in all five series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Kevin in Outside Edge and as Aubrey the appalling chef in Mike Leigh\'s Life is Sweet, Spall has since appeared in films such as Crusoe, Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Vanilla Sky, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, Lemony Snicket\'s A Series of Unfortunate Events and The King\'s Speech. He gained international recognition as Peter Pettigrew (\"Wormtail\") in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In 1991 he guest starred in the series 5 Red Dwarf episode Back to Reality. In 1993, Spall was in Rab C Nesbitt. Spall performed lead vocals on the song The Devil Is An Englishman from the Ken Russell film Gothic (1986), in which Spall portrayed John William Polidori. Spall played the starring role of Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005 film Pierrepoint, which was released as The Last Hangman in the United States. In the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Spall voiced Phil Collins\' manager, Barry Mickelthwaite. In 2007, he starred as Nathaniel in Disney\'s Enchanted and Beadle Bamford in Tim Burton\'s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He also starred as Georgie Godwin in a one-off television drama The Fattest Man in Britain on ITV 1 which aired on the 20th December 2009. The drama also featured Bobby Ball, Frances Barber, Aisling Loftus, and Jeremy Kyle. In 2010 he portrayed Winston Churchill in critically acclaimed film The King\'s Speech for which as a member of the ensemble he was jointly awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. On 31 December 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
曉·斯金納1998-2003在義本學院（Eastbourne College）讀中學，后進入英國音樂及演藝學院（London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art）學習表演。 曉的演藝事業以舞台表演為主，但亦有出演電影、短片、電視劇和廣播劇。
1942年12月4日，出生于英国伦敦，曾在电影《BJ单身日记》里扮演布里奇特的母亲，1995年在李安执导的电影《理智与情感》中饰演母亲角色，在《哈利·波特与混血王子》中饰演庞弗雷夫人，还和《哈利·波特》小说英国版电子书播讲者Stephen Fry以及《哈利·波特》电影中飞行课教师胡奇夫人的扮演者佐伊·沃纳梅克一起出演过电影《王尔德》。