Mysterious Creatures
2006Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measures with tragic consequences.
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Timothy Spall
as Bill Ainscow
Brenda Blethyn
as Wendy Ainscow
Rebekah Staton
as Lisa Ainscow
Judy Flynn
as Anne Buckley
David Crellin
as David Kirwan
Stephen Boxer
as Martyn Bowler
Alistair Galbraith
as Dr. David Yorke
Mark Penfold
as Judge Bryn
Gary Cargill
as Merseyside PC 1
Nicholas Gleaves
as Richard Nicholas
Noma Dumezweni
as Chanelle Pinkerton