'I Capture the Castle' Is All Talk

The Washington Post | July 18, 2003| | Copyright

IN "I CAPTURE the Castle," based on the 1948 novel by British writer Dodie Smith (who also wrote "The Hundred and One Dalmatians"), 17-year-old Cassandra (Romola Garai) lives with her eccentric, dysfunctional family in a rented English castle. Cassandra's father, Mortmain (Bill Nighy), a writer, hasn't put pen to paper in more than two decades thanks to a traumatic past. Mortmain is married to the distinctly odd Topaz (Tara FitzGerald), who loves painting and playing the mysterious one. And there are Cassandra's two siblings: Rose (Rose Byrne), her beautiful older sister who's dying to get ...

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