Synopsis
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (2022) is a four-part British drama based on a true story — watch it online on iFILM. In 2002, prison officer John Darwin vanished off the English coast, leaving behind an empty kayak. No body was ever recovered.
He had not drowned. For years Darwin hid in a concealed room in the house next door, while his wife Anne collected the life insurance, paid off the mortgage, and kept up the performance of a grieving widow in front of their two sons. Eventually the couple relocated to Panama — and a photograph from a local estate agent's website, showing them together and very much alive, started the unravelling. Eddie Marsan plays John, Monica Dolan plays Anne.
Written by Chris Lang (Unforgotten) and directed by Richard Laxton, the series is less interested in the mechanics of fraud than in the marriage that sustained it for years without collapsing. Watch The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (2022) online on iFILM.
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