Set against the turmoil of eighteenth-century Britain, Savage House is a wickedly funny black comedy about status, ambition and spectacularly bad decisions. Starring Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant, the film follows the impoverished Savage family as they plunge into debt preparing to host the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. As illness, scandal, infidelity, scheming servants and mounting disasters threaten to derail the occasion, their desperate bid for social acceptance spirals into chaos. A razor-sharp period satire packed with misfortune, misunderstandings and dark humour, where everything that can go wrong inevitably does.
How far would you go to impress the right guests? In Savage House, an impoverished aristocratic family risks everything preparing for a prestigious visit. Starring Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant, this darkly comic period satire serves up scandal, disaster and delicious social embarrassment. ★★★★★"Uproariously funny, suddenly bleak and then tragically poignant… Foy and Grant are on blistering form" : The Times
