Relative Values (2000)
Director: Eric Styles · Writers: Noël Coward, Paul Rattigan
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets. In 1952 England, Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda, upsetting both Nigel's mother, Countess Felicity, and Miranda's former love fellow Hollywood star Don. Right before the engagement party at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend, reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, devises a plan - but an inebriated Don's arrival at Marshwood to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.
Director
Eric Styles
Cast
Julie Andrews
Felicity Marshwood 
Edward Atterton
Nigel Marshwood 
William Baldwin
Don Lucas 
Colin Firth
Peter Ingleton 
Stephen Fry
Frederick Crestwell 
Sophie Thompson
Dora Moxton 'Moxie' 
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Miranda Frayle / Freda Birch 
Stephanie Beacham
Elizabeth 
Charles Edwards
Phillip Bateman-Tobias 
Michael Higgs
Film Director 
David Schaal
The Baddie User Reviews (1)
This probably isn't one of Noël Coward's better plays for me, but Eric Styles has managed to assemble a solid cast to make this adaptation just about watchable. Edward Atterton (Lord Marshwood) has fallen for Hollywood star "Miranda" (Jeanne Tripplehorn) who is, in turn, on the rebound from a relationship with her on-screen partner "Lucas" (William Baldwin). After their whirlwind romance on the Côte d'Azur they plan to return to his stately pile where his dowager countess mother "Felicity" (Dame Julie Andrews) is waiting to greet them. Now this woman is rather shrewd and egged on by her mischievous nephew "Peter" (Colin Firth) decides to let matters take their course... That plan is rather spiked by a surprise announcement from her long-term confidante "Moxie" (Sophie Thompson) that, coupled with the pursuing "Lucas", creates the template for quite an engaging, if one-dimensional, thea…
