September 22, 2000
| Film Four
| 98 minutes
Directed by: Terrence Gross
| Written by: Terrence Gross
| Cinematography: Gyula Pados
| Editing: Michael Ellis
| Costume Design: Michele Pernetta
| Production Design: Alison Dominitz
| Music: Mark Tschanz
The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanche, whose grown children(Stephen Tompkinson, Katrin Cartlidge) now run the hotel according to her specificiations, serving up ghastly seaweed and fish-based food and enema treatments. One day, a young woman, Kath (Toni Collette), once the sous chef, arrives when she receives an anonymous letter telling her of the matriarch's death. Will she bring light into the place with her wonderful cooking?
Cast: Toni Collette (Kath), Daniel Craig (Ronald Blanche), Katrin Cartlidge (Cora Blanche), Stephen Tompkinson (Dezmond Blanche), Hugh O'Conor (Stanley Smith), Helen McCrory (Lorna Bull), Peter Vaughan (Morton Blanche), Joerg Stadler (Sergei Gorgonov), Claire Cathcart (Lorraine Bull), John Boswell (Bellboy), Toby Jones (Kitchen boy), Dan Hildebrand (Waiter), Nadine Leonard (Chambermaid), Len Hibberd (The Fisherman), Imogen Claire (Edna Blanche), Stanley Kaye (Mr. Lyme), Patrick Bloomfield (Patrick Colonic), Ruby Buchanan (Ruby Colonic), David da Silva (David Da Gigglo), Dorothy Feakins (Dorothy Teenage), Norman Feakins (Norman Teenage), Karen Schneider (Karen Thin), Salo Gardner (Salo Thin), Bruce Graham (Master Bruce Dysfunctional), Geoff Evans (Mr. Geoff Dysfunctional), Cicely Blalock (Mrs. Cicely Dysfunctional)
