Widows' Peak

Widows' Peak
Video release poster
Directed byJohn Irvin
Written byHugh Leonard
Tim Hayes
Produced byJo Manuel
Starring
CinematographyAshley Rowe
Edited byPeter Tanner
Music byCarl Davis
Distributed byRank Film Distributors
Release date
  • 13 May 1994 (1994-05-13)
Running time
101 minutes
CountriesIreland
United Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Irish
Box office$6.5 million (US/UK)

Widows' Peak is a 1994 British-Irish mystery film directed by John Irvin and starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar and Jim Broadbent.[1] The film is based on an original screenplay by Hugh Leonard and Tim Hayes.

Young Edwina Broome, an English war widow, moves into "Widows' Peak" in an Irish village and soon has a conflict with spinster Miss Katherine O'Hare which soon escalates, leaving the town in an uproar.

  1. ^ The Irish Filmography 1896–1996; Dublin: Red Mountain Press, 1996. p.207