Love and Death on Long Island is a 1997 British-Canadian film adapted from Gilbert Adair's 1990 novel of the same name, directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Anne Reid.

Giles rams his shopping cart into her to force an introduction and invents a story about his god-daughter, Abigail, being in love with Ronnie.

The girlfriend, Audrey (Fiona Loewi), is seemingly glad to have found a fan-base for Ronnie in England, and spends the day talking to Giles.

[8] Critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars and praised Hurt for giving De'Ath "a dignity...that transcends any snickering amusement at his infatuation.

What makes it perhaps even better than Adair’s clever novel...is the beautiful balance of humane sympathies Kwietniowski achieves; at no point does the foolishness or vanity of either character wipe out our sense of his dignity, and Fiona Loewi is no less touching as the movie star’s girlfriend.

"[10] And Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune also gave the film three and a half stars and called it "a bewitching comedy about what happens when Giles opens himself up to the modern world -- and his own sexual inclinations," adding that it's "charming, caustic, touching and vaguely creepy."

It's a performance in which you marvel at the details: the contrast between his haughty manner outside and his private embarrassed laughter as he watches a Bostock video in which a biker is catapulted into a manure pile; his startled reaction to a car that robotically warns, "You are standing too close to this vehicle"; the way he flinches when a close-up of a mortally wounded Bostock character cuts to a shot of a priest, as if Giles had forgotten that the precious image on his TV screen was not fixed there."

Caro also lauded director Kwietniowski for showing "a gentle touch in portraying Giles' folly and satirizing British stuffiness and American anti-intellectualism.