January 16, 2006

The Way We Live Now (BBC)- Shady financier Augustus Melmotte lures prominent citizens and politicians into a colossal get-rich-quick railroad scheme involving the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway Company - a railroad between Salt Lake City and Veracruz. Based on the book by Anthony Trollope.



An Ideal Husband (Miramax) - Northam, a member of Parliament, is blackmailed into a shady canal scheme by a mysterious woman who turns out to be a loathed school chum of his wife.