Mary Shelley (2018)

Young Mary Godwin doesn't get along with her stepmother, so she is sent from her London home to Scotland, where she meets the poet Percy Shelley. They fall for each other and, despite eventually discovering that he already has a wife and child, Mary and her sister Claire move in with him.

Percy is annoyed that Mary's not open-minded about sexual dalliances -- which he seems to be enjoying with Claire. He's also in debt up to his eyes, which winds up contributing to the death of their infant daughter. It's basically a misery-fest, but one that leads Mary to author "Frankenstein," a story about a being who is awoken only to be abandoned.

This was in desperate need of some lightness.

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