Mysterious Creatures
Drama
TV Movie
A family bound by love, but torn apart by despair.
Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measures with tragic consequences.
2006-10-29
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Cast
Timothy Spall as Bill Ainscow
Brenda Blethyn as Wendy Ainscow
Rebekah Staton as Lisa Ainscow
Judy Flynn as Anne Buckley
David Crellin as David Kirwan
Stephen Boxer as Martyn Bowler
Mark Penfold as Judge Bryn
Gary Cargill as Merseyside PC 1
Nicholas Gleaves as Richard Nicholas
Noma Dumezweni as Chanelle Pinkerton