Fortysomething (2 Disc Set)

Hugh Laurie (Blackadder, House M.D.) stars in Nigel Williams’ dramatisation of his own humorous novel, Fortysomething, a universal tale of mid-life crisis. Beset by the tribulations of oncoming middle-age and the apparent dwindling of his sex life, Paul Slippery’s daily life becomes a series of emotional crises. Paul is disgusted when his fiftysomething friend begins an energetic but ultimately fatal affair with a thirtysomething; anxious when his wife Estelle (Anna Chancellor – Four Weddings and a Funeral) returns to work for a boss who seems to express an unhealthy interest in the state of their marriage; and envious when his sons indulge in sexual relations under his own roof, with a number of girlfriends who just happen to be related.