Desperate Remedies

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tt0106709Lisa played the role of Anne Cooper in the 1993 movie Desperate Remedies, find more information about this role below.

Year – 1993
Producer – Trishia Downie
Directors – Stewart Wallace & Peter Wells
Stars – Jennifer Ward Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell

Story – In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain’s empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter.  A local politician William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him.  Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes (Kevin Smith), a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry her sister Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her.  But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper (Lisa Chappell), who encourages the match with Poyner to give the lovers cover.  Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?