Room at the Top (2 Part TV Mini Series)(2012)
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Room at the Top
 120 min | Year: 2012 |  United Kingdom

This two part dramatisation of John Braine's novel about a working class boy on the make lacked subtlety in parts but on the whole was well staged and played by a good cast. Set in a fictional town "up north", Matthew McNulty plays a brainy lad, Joe Lampton, who finds a place at an accountancy firm in the big town in immediately post-war Britain and finds his rugged good looks and down-to-earth manner marking him out for career advancement, as well it seems as with half the womenfolk in the town.

Before long he's fallen hard for an estranged middle-aged married woman he meets at amateur dramatics of all things but finds himself in romantic conflict as the pretty young daughter of a big boss tilts her hat at him. She offers him escape, youth and position, while all the older woman can offer him is her devotion until he's forced to make a choice between the two, which as tragic consequences for one side of the triangle.

The programme pulls no punches in its use of extremely strong language and depiction of the frequent sex-scenes, but both I felt were justified. What I didn't get was the sense that Worley was a big town in relation to Finton, his childhood home, to which Lampton returns for a nostalgic visit just before the end. There are very few external location shots to give the piece a sense of place, you'd only know you're north of Watford by the accents.

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Main guy has a love triangle with an estranged middle-aged married woman and the pretty young daughter of a big boss, who has a boyfriend, at least initially.

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