The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers

174 mins | Drama | Oct. 18, 2007

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

The Shell Seekers

174 mins | Drama | Oct. 18, 2007

The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Neue Tonfilm, ORF, ZDF, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG), Clasart Film + TV Produktions GmbH, Gate Television Productions
Original title The Shell Seekers
Directors Jo Beckett, Piers Haggard
Writers Brian Finch, Rosamunde Pilcher

Cast

Vanessa Redgrave

as Penelope Keeling

Maximilian Schell

as Lawrence Sterne

Charles Edwards

as Noel Keeling

Prunella Scales

as Dolly Keeling

Victoria Smurfit

as Olivia Keeling

Victoria Hamilton

as Nancy Chamberlaine

Sebastian Koch

as Cosmo König

Stephanie Stumph

as Antonia König

Richard Hope

as George Chamberlaine

Lucas Gregorowicz

as Danus Muirfield

Maisie Dimbleby

as Young Penelope

Toby Fisher

as Ambrose Keeling

Alastair Mackenzie

as Richard

Cherith Mellor

as Mrs. Plackett

Hugh Sachs

as Roy Brookner

Imogen Bain

as Sister Rogers

Rebecca Blake

as Angie

Amanda Boxer

as Aunt Ethel Stern

Max Cane

as Ernie Penberthy

Tim Faraday

as Jim Slade

Patrick Godfrey

as Mr. Enderby

Nickolas Grace

as Mundy

Rosalind Knight

as Mrs. Croftway

Neil May

as Pub Customer

Penelope McGhie

as Woman in Street

Christopher Ravenscroft

as Colonel Mellaby