After World War I, 10-year-old Fraser Pettigrew lives on a Scottish estate with his mother and sister, his would-be-inventor father, and their matriarch, his disciplinarian grandmother. Although the household is accustomed to visits from eccentric suitors hoping to impress his beautiful sister, their lives are turned upside down when Fraser's uncle and his French maid fiancecome to stay. Starring, in alphabetical order: Colin Firth, Irène Jacob, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Rosemary Harris