Under the Greenwood Tree

2007

Fancy Daye comes back to her village to care for her dying father. Immediately three men fall in love with her. Richest man in town; the parson; and Dick Dewey, laborer. Fancy is educated with aspirations. All three men offer something. Wealth, intellectual life and travel, and love.

Fancy opts for love and marries the laborer, but the film does a great job of making this choice not so obviously correct. The parson, were he not a prig of sorts, does offer her a fuller life. Well acted . . . charming in the best way

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