The Darkest Light (12A)
- Run time: 1 hour 33 mins
- Genre: Thriller / Drama
- Release date: 14th January 2000
- Starring: Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox, Keri Arnold
- Directed by: Simon Beaufoy, Bille Eltringham
- Distributor: Pathe Distribution
Plot Synopsis
THIS emotional drama is set in the often beautiful, sometimes harrowing landscape of rural Yorkshire. Brought up on a remote farm, twelve-year-old Catherine is torn between feelings of jealousy and protectiveness for her eight-year-old brother Matthew who suffers from leukemia. Into the local village, and into Catherine's life, comes Uma, a twelve year old Hindu girl. After some naive, and comical-in-its-innocence racism, the girls become friends.