Hotel du Lac(1986)
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
Movie: Hotel du Lac
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Edith Hope
Philip Neville
Mrs. Pusey
Monica
Jennifer Pusey
David Simmonds
Madame de Bonneuil
Penelope Milne
Harold Webb
Geoffrey Long
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Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
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1986-03-02
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