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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 24-09-2007, 10:08 AM
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I've been trying for ages to remember a tv drama from a few years back - may have been BBC. Some guy are on a boating holiday on the Broads (they may have been engaged in a bit of a race with friends on another boat). They stop to pick up a mysterious young woman stranded on the bank, and shortly after discover a small side-river which strangely isn't on the map. The girl persuades them to take it as a short cut, and they become increasingly lost and confused. The ending is that they wake up in the morning, the girl has vanished into thin air and they find they've been transported into a bleak "other-worldly" landscape, bearing no relation to the Broads, with the water stretching on into infinity. They cannot go back because everything behind them is blocked off. Spooky!
My first posting on the site - I'll be sooooo grateful if anyone remembers what this was.

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It is not A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS. But I have on old VHS of a BBC play and it rang a bell. This is Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard. I think it likely this is what you remembered.

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GHOSTS: THREE MILES UP
A television programme. BBC Programme Number: LDPT905S
Broadcast history
18 Feb 1995 21:15-22:04 (BBC 1)
Recorded on 1994-11-05
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A canal holiday is meant to reconcile brothers Billy and John who havn't seen each other for years.But the cramped boats acts as a pressure cooker until the mysterious Sara appears to seal their fate.

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Doesn't ring a bell with me ... a Tales of the Unexpected perhaps. They were mostly filmed in Norfolk.

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Hi Nera,
sounds like a great little ghost story. Can you remember the year, or decade, of production?
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Could this possibly be the dramatisation of Ayckbourn's contribution to the horror genre, WAY UPSTREAM?
I say 'could' because I've never seen said film/play, but the description sounds kind of like it.
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I dont think it's Way Upstream because, in that movie, the plot revolves around the party picking up a psychopathic man, and it has no supernatural element to the story line.

I maybe wrong of course, but I remember the above as being slightly similar to the Hollywood film, Dead Calm.
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There was a tv sreies in the early 70's called "A LESSON TO THE CURIOUS" which was set on the broads but i don't think its the Nera wants.
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If it was filmed in Roxham it may well have been made by Roys as he seems to own everything else around there if I recall from my last visit even the Chinese take-away.
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If it was filmed in Roxham it may well have been made by Roys as he seems to own everything else around there if I recall from my last visit even the Chinese take-away.
That's spelled Wroxham.

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There was a tv sreies in the early 70's called "A LESSON TO THE CURIOUS" which was set on the broads but i don't think its the Nera wants.
That sounds like an MR James adaptation
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Lesson To The Curious is an M R James story and features Peter Vaughan hunting for some ancient crowns buried in Norfolk. It is really quite frightening at times, especially the scenes where he is digging ian isolated wood. Brr ... it's quite spooky here in Norfolk.

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It is not A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS. But I have on old VHS of a BBC play and it rang a bell. This is Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard. I think it likely this is what you remembered.

(From BBC cataogue)

GHOSTS: THREE MILES UP
A television programme. BBC Programme Number: LDPT905S
Broadcast history
18 Feb 1995 21:15-22:04 (BBC 1)
Recorded on 1994-11-05
Description
A canal holiday is meant to reconcile brothers Billy and John who havn't seen each other for years.But the cramped boats acts as a pressure cooker until the mysterious Sara appears to seal their fate.

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Nera did this story have Dennis Waterman in it? reason i ask is that i too submitted the same story theme and description some time ago, i think on britmovie, but was not able to find it ----as i am keen to know the title
The replies i had were the same as you have just received -- most likely was 'tales of the unexpected' but cannot find anything obvious
definately not an MR James
Will keep my eye on this thread

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I really like the Norfolk Broads.
As well as Australian broads, American broads.........

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Just watched "3 miles up" last night and it's definitely the one!

Three Miles Up (1995) (TV)
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Hello,
I'm trying to identify a drama which I remember watching and enjoying very much.
I think it was televised in the 1980's, probably by the BBc.
Two couples went holiday together on a motor boat probably on the Norfolk Broads.
There was a bit of a power struggle between the two men as to who was captain.
They invited a helpful(male) stranger aboard who basically took over the boat, I think he seduced at least one of the wives.
I cant remember exactly how it all panned out but can remember a bizarre under water fight where the less assertive man of the original two hit the stranger over the head with a tin of baked beans and either killed or injured him.
The final scene I think was the boat drifting up a backwater(heaven perhaps) with the quieter of the two couples on it, and them swimming naked.
They may have been dead.
Anyone remember seeing this play.
I'd love to know what it was.
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