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Bernard and Doris

Regular airtime: Saturday, 8pm ET (HBO)

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes, James Rebhorn, Nick Rolfe, Peter Asher

US release date: 9 February 2008

[8 February 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

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Mutual Abuses

As much as Bernard and Doris is a love story, it is also a study of the difficulties of class and sex, the ways that both complicate intimacy.

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Tagged as: james rebhorn | nick rolfe | peter asher | ralph fiennes | susan sarandon

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