Damage

Drama

Ian Bannen	Edward Lloyd
Juliette Binoche	Anna Barton
Leslie Caron	Elizabeth Prideaux
Gemma Clarke	Sally Fleming
Linda Delapena	Beth
Tony Doyle	Prime Minister
Susan Engel	Miss Snow
Julian Fellowes	Donald Lyndsaymp
Ray Gravell	Raymond
Rupert Graves	Martyn Fleming
Jeremy Irons	Doctor Stephen Fleming
Roger Llewellyn	Palmer
Jason Morell	Young Man at Sotheby's
Jeff Nuttall	Trevor Leigh Davies MP
Miranda Richardson	Ingrid Fleming

Director	Louis Malle
Producer	Louis Malle; Vincent Malle
Writer	David Hare; Josephine Hart

Stephen Fleming, the main character in the movie "Damage" (2002) is a man who has a life that many would envy. Fleming has a respected positon in government and a loving wife Ingrid (Miranda Richardson) and family. The happy situation is drastically altered when his adult son Martyn (Rupert Graves) brings home a fiancee, a lovely woman named Anna Barton (Juliette Binoche). Stephen and Anna are instantly attracted to each other and soon engage in a covert passionate affair. Stephen soon becomes dangerously obssessed with Anna without ever really understanding her or the consequences of his feelings. The affair is soon revealed and the consequences range from Ingrid's emotionally painful discovery to an unintended deeply tragic turn of events. The movie is an exploration of how a seemingly rational, successful person allows an illicit affair to permeate every aspect of his life.