Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial. Although he aspires to be an artist, middle class Charles Ryder is studying history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte, a flamboyant homosexual and alcoholic. Sebastian's family, the noble Marchmains, strongly disapprove of both proclivities. When Sebastian takes him home to visit his... nanny, Charles is enthralled by the grandeur of the Marchmain family estate, known as Brideshead, and he is entranced by its residents, including the devout Lady Marchmain and her other children, Sebastian's elder brother Bridey and his younger sisters Julia and Cordelia. When Lord Marchmain invites Sebastian and Julia to visit him and his mistress Cara in Venice, Lady Marchmain encourages Charles to accompany them in the hope he can be a positive influence on her son.
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| Release date: | July 25, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Julian Jarrold |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Kevin Loader, Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae |
| Editor: | Chris Gill |
| Music by: | Adrian Johnston |
| Cinematography: | Jess Hall |
| Screenplay by: | Andrew Davies, Jeremy Brock |
| Adapted from: | Brideshead Revisited |