The Last September (1999) part 3 of 10

Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is in the midst of a political upheaval, as upper class AngloIrish Protestants are driven from the country by the nation s increasingly vocal wishes Irish Catholic majority. Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Myra (Maggie Smith) are wealthy members of the AngloIrish aristocracy who slowly realize the life they ve known in County Cork is coming to an end. Living with the Naylors are their financiallyembarrassed friends Hugo and Francie Montmorency (Lambert Wilson and Jane Birkin); Marda Norton (Fiona Shaw), another friend who was one involved with Hugo; their nephew Laurence (Jonathan Slinger), a student at Oxford; and their niece Lois (Keeley Hawes). Lois is infatuated with Gerald (David Tennant), a British officer helping to mind the Naylors property, though Myra believes he s beneath Lois station; however, she s also keenly attracted to Con