Product Details

• Actors: Caroline Goodall, Robson Green, Philip Quast, Keeley Hawes, Michael Maloney
• Directors: Catherine Morshead
• Writers: Caleb Ranson
• Producers: Damien Timmer, Julie Gardner, Michele Buck, Rebecca Eaton, Sandra Jobling
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh / Pbs
• VHS Release Date: March 11, 2003
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000067JJ9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,575 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Love and politics don’t mix. Prepare for an explosive romance. Politics makes for strange bedfellows, indeed. Robson Green (Reckless, Touching Evil) portrays a Fleet Street tabloid writer who earns his keep airing the private doings of public figures. His next story is going to take him right to the top. The snooping columnist, who writes under the pseudonym Mrs. Jones, secretly infiltrates 10 Downing Street in an effort to reveal the Prime Minister’s intimate personal details and deflate her re-election campaign. But once inside, he finds not scandal but true love–with the married Prime Minister herself. This secret affair may end both his career and the PM’s political hopes, but the heart doesn’t always listen to logic. Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List, The Princess Diaries) co-stars as the British Prime Minister in Me and Mrs. Jones, a winning romantic drama propelled by gossip, scandal, and outrage, as well as powerhouse performances from two of today’s top talents.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a "Masterpiece," but nice, nonetheless., November 21, 2003

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Jennifer Blackford (Missoula, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masterpiece Theater: Me & Mrs Jones [VHS] (VHS Tape)

First aired on Masterpiece Theatre, this charming TV-movie stars Robson Green (Touching Evil, Reckless) and Caroline Goodall (The Mists of Avalon). Set in England, Green plays a tabloid reporter writing under the name "Mrs. Jones," who is assigned by his boss to try to get some dirt on the prime minister, Goodall. Ingratiating himself into her re-election campaign, he finds himself drawn to her, and must weigh his feelings against his assignment, while dodging the scrutiny of her staff.

It's a lovely, romantic movie, not to be taken too seriously. This point should be stressed as much occurs in the movie which takes a great deal of disbelief. Think of it as a modern fairy tale that sometimes surprises you. Well-acted by all, as I've come to expect from these productions, and Green and Goodall have nice chemistry together. In summary, it's fluff, but it's intelligent fluff.

[As a film note, both Keeley Hawes and Peter Firth (MI-5/Spooks television series actors) appear in this movie, although never in the same scenes.)

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Me and Mrs. Jones, September 9, 2005

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Marilyn A. Lacko (Clark, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Me & Mrs. Jones (DVD)

This is a very good movie to watch and especially if you are familiar with European customs. Robson Green is one of my favorite British actors and I tend to buy a lot of his movies when the movies are released. If you like Cinderella stories and maybe like to escape from reality every so often, then this is the movie for you. All the characters are very believeable and true to form. Even though something like this probably would not happen in real life, its always nice to dream. I recommend this movie to anybody, male or female.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantasy, but fun, February 11, 2003

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S. Metzner (Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masterpiece Theater: Me & Mrs Jones [VHS] (VHS Tape)

'Me & Mrs Jones' is light, entertaining and romantic. It is well written, acted and filmed. Even the minor characters have personality. Though in todays world with security concerns, specificly our leaders it is unreal to believe the ease at which Harry Fletcher (Robson Green) gains access to the Prime Minister (Caroline Goodall), but if you put aside that, the movie is enjoyable from start to finish.