Mysterious Creatures

Mysterious Creatures

69 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Oct. 29, 2006

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.

Mysterious Creatures

69 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Oct. 29, 2006

Mysterious Creatures
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.
Producers ITV
Original title Mysterious Creatures
Directors David Evans
Writers Gwyneth Hughes

Cast

Timothy Spall

as Bill Ainscow

Brenda Blethyn

as Wendy Ainscow

Rebekah Staton

as Lisa Ainscow

Judy Flynn

as Anne Buckley

David Crellin

as David Kirwan

Stephen Boxer

as Martyn Bowler

Alistair Galbraith

as Dr. David Yorke

Mark Penfold

as Judge Bryn

Gary Cargill

as Merseyside PC 1

Nicholas Gleaves

as Richard Nicholas

Noma Dumezweni

as Chanelle Pinkerton