

The Shell Seekers
Genres
Overview
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
174 min
Release Date
2007-10-18
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
7
Vote Average
6.9
Vanessa Redgrave
Penelope Keeling
Maximilian Schell
Lawrence Sterne
Charles Edwards
Noel Keeling
Prunella Scales
Dolly Keeling
Victoria Smurfit
Olivia Keeling
Victoria Hamilton
Nancy Chamberlaine
Sebastian Koch
Cosmo König
Stephanie Stumph
Antonia König
Richard Hope
George Chamberlaine
Lucas Gregorowicz
Danus Muirfield
Maisie Dimbleby
Young Penelope
Toby Fisher
Ambrose Keeling
Alastair Mackenzie
Richard
Cherith Mellor
Mrs. Plackett
Hugh Sachs
Roy Brookner
Imogen Bain
Sister Rogers
Rebecca Blake
Angie
Amanda Boxer
Aunt Ethel Stern
Max Cane
Ernie Penberthy
Tim Faraday
Jim Slade
Patrick Godfrey
Mr. Enderby
Nickolas Grace
Mundy
Rosalind Knight
Mrs. Croftway
Neil May
Pub Customer
Penelope McGhie
Woman in Street
Christopher Ravenscroft
Colonel Mellaby
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