TY - ADVS AU - Lanthimos,Yorgos AU - Dempsey,Ceci AU - Guiney,Ed AU - Magiday,Lee AU - Davis,Deborah AU - McNamara,Tony AU - Colman,Olivia AU - Stone,Emma AU - Weisz,Rachel AU - Gatiss,Mark AU - Hoult,Nicholas AU - Alwyn,Joe AU - Smith,James AU - Rainsford,Jenny ED - Fox Searchlight Pictures, ED - FilmFour (Firm), ED - Waypoint Entertainment (Firm), ED - Element Pictures (Firm), ED - Scarlet Films (Firm), ED - TSG Entertainment. ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc, TI - The favourite U1 - 791.4372 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Moore Park, New South Wales PB - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment South Pacific KW - Anne, KW - Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, KW - Masham, Abigail, KW - Female friendship KW - Drama KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Ambition KW - Favorites, Royal KW - Great Britain KW - Nobility KW - Biographical films KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Historical films KW - Video recordings for people with visual disabilities KW - Comedy films KW - England KW - Social life and customs KW - 18th century KW - History KW - Anne, 1702-1714 KW - Politics and government KW - 1702-1714 KW - Court and courtiers KW - lcgft KW - Dark comedy films KW - gsafd N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2018; Special features: deleted scenes ; The Favourite: unstitching the costume drama (22 min.); Produced by Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney ; produced by Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos ; written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara ; directed by Yorgos Lanthimos; Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, James Smith, Jenny Rainsford; Censorship classification : MA15+ N2 - Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their growing friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions, and no one will stand in her way ER -