Sweet Revenge is a 2001

2001 in television

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 British

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 television film that aired in two parts on BBC One

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 on 15 and 16 October 2001. It stars Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo

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, Paul McGann

Paul McGann

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 and Pam Ferris

Pam Ferris

Pamela Ann "Pam" Ferris is a German-born Welsh actress. She is best known for her starring roles on television as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, as Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme, and for playing Miss Trunchbull in the movie Matilda...

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Written by Sandy Welch and directed by David Morrissey

David Morrissey

David Mark Morrissey is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool, and learned to act at the city's Everyman Youth Theatre. At the age of 18, he was cast in the television series One Summer , which won him recognition throughout the country...

, Sweet Revenge tells the story of a group of wronged Londoners who seek to exact revenge upon those who have mistreated them. Each employs the enigmatic Professor Patrick Vine, (McGann), who, when not teaching History

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 and Anthropology

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, runs a sideline in helping people get revenge. The story centres upon Ellen, (Okonedo), who is seeking revenge on her cheating husband. As the plot progresses, she and Vine grow closer.