American Friends (1991)
"An education in love"

Title: American Friends
Original Title: American Friends
Release Date: 1991-03-22
Status: Released
Rating: 6.2/10 (from 10 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Production Companies: Prominent Features, Mayday, Millenium, BBC, British Screen Productions, British Screen
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Cast

Michael Palin
Rev. Francis Ashby

Trini Alvarado
Elinor Hartley

Connie Booth
Caroline Hartley

Alfred Molina
Oliver Syme

Bryan Pringle
Haskell

Jonathan Firth
Cable

Susan Denaker
Mrs. Cantrell

David Calder
Pollitt

Robert Eddison
Rushden - The President

Simon Jones
Anderson