Mr. Malcolm's List

Mr. Malcolm's List is a 2022 period drama film directed by Emma Holly Jones and written by Suzanne Allain, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Freida Pinto, Sope Dirisu, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ashley Park, Zawe Ashton, and Theo James. The film follows a young woman in 1800s England who helps her friend to get revenge on a suitor who rejected her for failing a requirement on his list of qualifications for a bride.<ref name="FirstLook">{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/04/mr-malcolms-list-first-look|title='Mr. Malcolm's List': Bridgerton Meets 'Pride & Prejudice' in This Romantic First Look|first=Yohana|last=Desta|website=Vanity Fair|date=April 18, 2022|access-date=May 12, 2022}}</ref> The film was released in the United States and Canada on July 1, 2022, and later in the United Kingdom and Ireland on August 26. Plot The beautiful Julia Thistlewaite (Zawe Ashton) attends the opera with the most eligible bachelor of the season, Mr. Jeremy Malcolm (Sope Dirisu). After she fails to impress him she is widely mocked in a caricature. Julia employs her cousin, the feckless Lord Cassidy, to see what she has done to offend Mr. Malcolm. Malcolm reveals to Cassidy that he has a list of requirements for a wife which Julia did not meet. Cassidy lets this slip to Julia who is offended.