![]() They put an ad in the newspaper for a housekeeper. What we have here are 3 retired sea Captains who share a house. This was before the Internet, very few homes in rural areas had telephones. So let us just take the movie as a delightful fantasy, except for the fact that advertising for a housekeeper with a romantic attachment was popular was still popular. I doubt than any of us can remember that time as it was over 100 years ago. Yes the story takes place in Chatham Mass. ![]() Reviewed by jaybob 7 / 10 A charming tale of about living in rural Cape Cod in 1905 But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman (Mariel Hemingway) selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. "Chatham" tells the story of three retired sea captains - Zebulon "Zeb" Hedge (Carradine), Perez Ryder (Dern), and Jeremiah "Jerry" Burgess (Torn) - living together in genteel squalor. ![]()
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