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Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution (12A)

• Consumer Advice: Contains one use of moderate language
• Run time: 1 hour 43 mins

• Genre: Comedy
• Release date: 28th September 2007

• Starring: Catherine Tate, Iain Glen, Heike Makatsch
• Directed by: Billie Eltringham

• Distributor: Warner Brothers

Plot Synopsis

Based on the true story of Frank Ratcliffe, a Marxist from the north of England who drags his family with him to live in East Berlin in the mid-1960s, only to realize later that life in the communist bloc is not the idyll he had imagined. His wife of 17 years, Dorothy Ratcliffe, is thrown by life behind the Iron Curtain but battles to keep the family together.