What is the movie fingersmith about?
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What is the movie fingersmith about?
Based on Sarah Waters’ titillating 2002 novel of the same name, FINGERSMITH follows the lives of two women — streetwise pickpocket Sue Trinder (Sally Hawkins) and sheltered heiress Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy) — whose destinies become intertwined when the handsome Gentleman aka Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) involves …
How old is Sue in Fingersmith?
20-year-old
But when Mrs Sucksby’s old friend Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans), known as Gentleman, offers 20-year-old Sue £2,000 to assist him in one of his scams, she cannot resist.
What year is Fingersmith set in?
London 1862
London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves – fingersmiths – under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her ‘family’. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue’s fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
What year is Fingersmith set?
London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves – fingersmiths – under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her ‘family’. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue’s fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
How did Fingersmith end?
Maud physically tries to stop him, knowing how the truth would devastate Sue; a scuffle between Maud, Gentleman and Mrs Sucksby ensues, and in the confusion, Gentleman is stabbed by the knife Sue had brought with her to kill Maud. He bleeds to death.
What was the ending of Fingersmith?
Sucksby is hanged, and Sue finds a document that says that she is Lilly’s daughter, but they were switched at birth. The fortune was to be split between the two. Sue realizes that she was as much a pawn in the Gentleman’s plan as Maud was, and they begin their relationship together.
What happened to Agnes in fingersmith?
Though Agnes has always managed to keep to her work schedule in the past, even after being beaten by Maud, the next morning Agnes is unable to get up for work. Her mouth is red and inflamed, as if it has suffered some physical trauma, and she claims to have a contagious illness that she’s exhibited no symptoms of.
