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Take a Girl Like You (2000–2000)
TV Mini-series | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Take a Girl Like You (2000–2000)

TV Mini-series | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The novel opens with Jenny Bunn's arrival at her lodging-house. She's a young, strikingly beautiful, provincial Northern woman who has moved to a London suburb to take her first teaching job. Jenny has rented a room in the home of a ...See moreThe novel opens with Jenny Bunn's arrival at her lodging-house. She's a young, strikingly beautiful, provincial Northern woman who has moved to a London suburb to take her first teaching job. Jenny has rented a room in the home of a middle-aged couple, Dick and Martha Thompson. Dick Thompson, is apparently some sort of an auctioneer and his wife Martha Thompson is bored, cynical, and openly suspicious of attractive young Jenny. The Thompsons' other lodger, Anna, is apparently French. Jenny soon meets Patrick Standish, an acquaintance of the Thompsons, who is immediately attracted to her. Patrick takes Jenny on a date to what seems to her to be a fashionable, upmarket Italian restaurant, but which Amis makes clear is a classless suburban pseudo-Italianate place. Impressed, Jenny lets Patrick take her back to the house he shares with Graham, an unattractive Scottish schoolmaster. Heavy petting ensues and Patrick assumes that Jenny will sleep with him, but instead she rebuffs him and explains that she intends to remain a virgin until she is married. The rest of the novel concerns itself with Patrick's attempts to seduce Jenny (and his first efforts at sexual fidelity), and with Jenny's attempts to fend off his attentions and those of many others who are attracted to her. Eventually, Patrick gives Jenny an ultimatum: either she goes to bed with him or the relationship is over. Jenny finds herself unable to comply and they part. However, at a party given by the flashy and dubious Julian Ormerod (occupation unclear), Patrick takes advantage of an inebriated and defenceless Jenny in a guest bedroom. When she realises what has happened, Jenny is furious and tells Patrick she never wants to see him again; later the same day she decides to accept what she believes is her "destiny" and they reunite. See less

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33 cast members

Name	Episodes	Known for
Sienna Guillory Jenny Bunn Jenny Bunn See fewer	3	Love Actually (2003)
Rupert Graves Patrick Standish Patrick Standish See fewer	3	Sherlock (2010)
Robert Daws Dick Thompson Dick Thompson See fewer	3	Land of the Blind (2006)
Emma Chambers Martha Thompson Martha Thompson See fewer	3	Notting Hill (1999)
Neil Jones Horace Charlton Horace Charlton See fewer	3	Take a Girl Like You (2000)
Jeff Rawle Mr. Charlton Mr. Charlton See fewer	3	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Ian Driver Graham McClintoch Graham McClintoch See fewer	3	A Touch of Frost (1992)
Hugh Bonneville Julian Ormerod Julian Ormerod See fewer	3	Downton Abbey (2019)
Kathy Kiera Clarke Anna Le Page Anna Le Page See fewer	3	Bloody Sunday (2002)
Amelia Warner Sheila Torkingham Sheila Torkingham See fewer	3	Æon Flux (2005)
Rupert Vansittart Headmaster Headmaster See fewer	2	Braveheart (1995)
Natalie Roles Joan Joan See fewer	2	Highlander: The Raven (1998)
Bridget McConnell Miss Sinclair Miss Sinclair See fewer	2	Miss Potter (2006)
Deborah Cornelius Susan Susan See fewer	2	Poirot (1989)
Simon Evans Horse Horse See fewer	2	Erik the Viking (1989)
Dave Hill Mr. Bunn Mr. Bunn See fewer	2	Chef! (1993)
Nina Young Wendy Wendy See fewer	2	Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Marsha Fitzalan Lady Dot Edgerstone Lady Dot Edgerstone See fewer	1	An Ideal Husband (I) (1999)
Leslie Phillips Lord Archie Edgerstone Lord Archie Edgerstone See fewer	1	Venus (I) (2006)
Jacki Piper Mrs. Bunn Mrs. Bunn See fewer	1	Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)
Andy Linden Club Doorman Club Doorman See fewer	1	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
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Chris Hollis Party Guest Party Guest See fewer	1	Frankenstein (1994)
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Claudia McNulty Party Guest Party Guest See fewer	1	Rag Nymph (1997)
Sarah Whitlock Party Guest Party Guest See fewer	1	Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
Margaret Wheldon Party Girl Party Girl See fewer	1	Trapped in their Dreams
Steven Webb Craig Craig See fewer		The Princess and the Pea (2002)
Susie Valerio Sonia Sonia See fewer		Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Nick Harnett Office Worker Office Worker See fewer		Take a Girl Like You (2000)
Edward Sylvester School Boy School Boy See fewer		Take a Girl Like You (2000)