- Country: UK
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 2007-05-07
- Director: Gillies MacKinnon
- Writers: Adrian Hodges , H.G. Wells
- Language: English
- Stars: Lee Evans , Anne-Marie Duff , Julie Graham , Richard Coyle , Beans El-Balawi , Richard Elfyn , Paul Bown , Catrin Morgan , John Warnaby , Roger Lloyd Pack
- Runtime: 120 min
- Awards: 2 wins
- AKA: Mr. Polly lázadása (Hungary) , The History of Mr Polly , The History of Mr Polly (United Kingdom)
- Plot: In the early 1900s Alfred Polly, still hankering after his dream girl Christabel, marries Miriam Larkins and they open a shop, but, as the years go by, the marriage becomes stale and Polly feels trapped. He decides to stage his own death by burning down the shop but becomes an accidental hero when he saves a deaf old lady from the flames. Giving Miriam the insurance pay-out he decides to go walkabout and gets a job at a country pub, the Potwell Inn, run by a kindly landlady. However, her violent nephew Jim is driving the customers away and Polly reluctantly faces up to him. Jim is drunk and falls in the river and drowns, wearing a pair of trousers stolen from Polly with Polly's name inside and so at last Polly has his perfect escape as it is assumed his is the corpse. After a visit to Miriam, now perfectly happy running a tea-shop, he returns to the Potwell Inn and the idyllic life he has always craved.
- IMDB:tt0884763
The History of Mr Polly Cast · · · ALL
Gillies MacKinnon
Director
Lee Evans
Alfred Polly
Anne-Marie Duff
Miriam Larkins
Richard Coyle
Jim
Richard Elfyn
William Polly
Paul Bown
Teacher
Beans El-Balawi
Young Polly
Julie Graham
Nancy Potter
Roger Lloyd Pack
Selina Cadell
John Warnaby
Chrissie Cotterill
Monica Dolan
Rebecca O’Mara
Stan Stennett
Jason Watkins
Trevor Cooper
Adrian Scarborough
Georgia King