The Private Life of Samuel Pepys

Name: The Private Life of Samuel Pepys
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003-12-16
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Steve Coogan, Lou Doillon, Andrew Harrison

TV Movie
2003
TV-14
1h

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6.3/10

168

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Drama

Samuel Pepys was a high ranking and brilliant Admiralty official, but in private he was a cheat, a philanderer and an adulterer. In 1679 Pepys was put on trial for embezzling Navy funds. His... Read allSamuel Pepys was a high ranking and brilliant Admiralty official, but in private he was a cheat, a philanderer and an adulterer. In 1679 Pepys was put on trial for embezzling Navy funds. His diaries can clear him but they will also expose him for what he is, destroying him as a p... Read allSamuel Pepys was a high ranking and brilliant Admiralty official, but in private he was a cheat, a philanderer and an adulterer. In 1679 Pepys was put on trial for embezzling Navy funds. His diaries can clear him but they will also expose him for what he is, destroying him as a public figure in society. Will Pepys exonerate yet damn himself by revealing the contents o... Read all

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All of the soldiers were members of the Sealed Knot Society (an English Civil War re-enactment organization). Several other extras such as the Jailer were also members.

Quotes
Betty Bagwell: Have you never seen a woman naked?
Samuel Pepys: It's just like in the paintings.
Betty Bagwell: But without one of them cherubs in just the wrong place.

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I found this an entertaining one-off which certainly enhanced my knowledge of Pepys above the previous level of "didn't he write a diary at some point in the past?"

Being a fan of Coogan it's always difficult to look beyond your expectations of what he's going to be like based on his well-known previous characters. I'm sure it would have become easier had this been stretched out into a mini-series but there you go.

Interesting to see this so soon after the Charles II Power & Passion mini-series which finished a few weeks back. Being contemporaneous (get me!) the two programmes shared a lot of the historical background and quite a few of the characters.

In summary, well worth watching - even without considering the not-insignificant sexual content and gratuitous boob shots :-)