A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
Kenneth Branagh
as Charles Tansley
Rosemary Harris
as Mrs. Ramsay
Michael Gough
as Mr. Ramsay
Suzanne Bertish
as Lily Briscoe
Lynsey Baxter
as Nancy Ramsay
T. P. McKenna
as Augustus Carmichael
David Parfitt
as Andrew Ramsay
Simon Dutton
as Jasper Ramsey (aged 24)
Craig Warnock
as Jasper Ramsey (aged 14)
Nicola Wright
as Cam (aged 17)
Pippa Guard
as Prue Ramsay
