Marple - Ordeal by innocence

It's not bad, but there's nobody here that appealed to me. It's a sad story that ends with the murderer discovered, justice done, but there's no happy ending here. It's all sad.
It starts introducing the Argyle family: Rachel (Jane Seymour), a tyrant with lots of money: hard on her husband and generally unpleasant, not showing any love for anyone. Leo (Denis Lawson), the husband, a quiet man who works on a history book with Gwenda (Juliet Stevenson) to help him, and we can already see that she is in love with him. Since Rachel could not have children, she adopted six of them, one way or another. They are Mary (Lisa Stansfield) who seems to be cold and obsessed with order; Tina (Gugu Mbatha Raw) a lively girl; Hester (Stephanie Leonidas) a fragile girl; Micky (Bryan Dick) who has a temper and still resents Rachel because she "bought him for 100 pounds"; Bobby (Tom Riley) the responsible one who seems troubled by something, and his twin brother Jacko (Burn Gorman) who's always been the black sheep, always lying and getting himself into trouble.
In the house there are also Mary's husband Philip Durrant (Richard Armitage, quite charming himself, but an unpleasant character) who seems to be having an affair with Hester and that nobody likes, and Kirsten Lindstrom (Alison Steadman) who not only works for them but seems to have been for this children the "mother they never had", giving them the love they longed for.
When Jacko is in desperate need of money because he has to repay a debt or he'll be killed, Rachel refuses to help him. He threatens her, then goes away. That same night Rachel is killed and he is arrested. He's confident, smiling, because he says he has an alibi, they just need to find the man who picked him up when he was hitchhiking. Nobody believes him and nobody comes forward to conferm his alibi, so he's found guilty and executed. Two years go by, and without Rachel and Jacko the family is finally happy. Leo and Gwenda are engaged to be married and she calls her dear Miss Marple to share her happiness, but it won't last long. A stranger comes to the house, Dr Calgary (Julian Rhind Tutt) who has just found out about Jacko and has come to reveal the truth: Jacko was innocent, he was his alibi but had left for an expedition and had not heard about any of it. Dr Calgary thought his news would make them happy, but he was wrong, because for them it was all over and they were happy, but now the whole investigation has to start again and they are all suspects.
As Hester says "it's not the guilty that matters, it's the innocent who would suffer now". Marple of course joins the investigation, and she's sad when everybody seems to suspect Gwenda. Kirsten is the first, and her most strong accuser.
Jacko had known the identity of the real murderer, but had kept it to himself, doing "the best thing I've ever done", knowing that not been able to repay his debt, as a free man he would have died soon. Leo wants Gwenda to go away because the family has to stay together, thus making her feel Not part of the family. Marple will come back to this after Gwenda is killed and the inspector would have to notify her family but Gwenda was an orphan, didn't have any, she thought she had found here her family.
Long story short, the murderer was Kirsten, in love with Jacko, and he had told her what to do. She loved the other kids but was in love with Jacko. She spread suspicions around, speaking of Rachel who gave the children "money and attention" but "was not capable of love". Leo who turned alive after Rachel's death. Gwenda more than anyone suffered from her direct accusations.
She didn't try to save Jacko from death because she had thought she was the only one. She said to Miss Marple, about Jacko "we didn't know half of what he was up to. We didn't know he was married".
She killed Rachel for him and Gwenda because she thought she knew something (she told Marple: "if Gwenda found out something and she told you..." pretending to be worried for her..)
That's not all, however. It is discovered that Bobbi had lost all their money (so if Philip had really married Mary for money, he'll have nothing now) and he kills himself (why did he steal the silver things if he was planning to kill himself so near the house??)
Tina & Micky are in a relationship, but nothing will lift the sadness of the situation. No marriage, Gwenda dead. Bobbi dead, Kirsten arrested ( and soon dead, hanged, I guess). No happy ending here.
Marple will go home and Calgary will join another expedition. Last things I want to write so I won't forget them: "nothing is settled until it is settled right" by Kipling, I think. Miss Marple and Calgary say that.
They all agreed that Rachel and Jacko dying was the best thing that had ever happened to their family.  They brought unhappiness, without them, they were happy and close.
Last thing: Miss Marple knows how to pick a lock! She opens Rachel's safe with a hairpin :-p
I forgot: Camille Coduri is in this film, she plays Mrs Lindsay who knew Jacko had other women but still liked him and is sad he's dead. She had way too much makeup here, as the role demanded I suppose, but she's always nice :-)


ITA le due verità / prova d'innocenza (?)