Brideshead Revisited (UK, 2008) August 21, 2008

Handsome Charles Tyder (Matthew Goode) is the artistic son of a well-to-do Victorian merchant. The year is 1925 and Charles is off to Oxford. He is quietly yearned after and taken under the wing of the free-wheeling Sebastian, the (at home closeted) scion of the Flytes, a wealthy, aristocratic, and devoutly Catholic family. Sebastian invites Charles home for the holidays: home being the overpowering majesty of the breathtaking Brideshead, a 17th-century English estate that embodies the once-awesome power and privilege of the British aristocracy. It is here that the Flyte family struggles against the oncoming 20th century's raging transformation of sexual values. Enter Charles, the attractive, honest, polite, athiest, and would-be artist, who sets off shockwaves within the Flytes. However, Charles soon finds himself caught in the web of passions and social obligations that rule Brideshead.