Mysterious Creatures
Completed
Mysterious Creatures
8.0
2006
Updated to Full
TV Series
Director:
David Evans
Cast:
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Noma Dumezweni, Rebekah Staton, Judy Flynn, David Crellin, Stephen Boxer, Alistair Galbraith, Mark Penfold, Gary Cargill, Nicholas Gleaves
Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measures with tragic consequences.
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