Plenty is a 1985 American drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep.

Spanning nearly 20 years from the early 1940s to the 1960s, the plot focuses on Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman who is irreparably changed by her experiences as a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II when she has a one-night stand with a British intelligence agent.

After the war ends, Susan returns to England and becomes determined to make a life for herself by achieving what she wishes in the post-war world which, after her time away, she finds trivial and inadequate, while acting with complete disregard for everybody around her.

Susan seizes the opportunity to return to England for Sir Leonard Darwin's funeral, which angers Raymond.

Susan refuses to return to Jordan, and in 1962, she confronts Sir Andrew Charleson about Raymond's stagnant career.

[6] Cultural and literary critic Tiffany Gilbert suggests that the "Englishness" that scriptwriter David Hare regarded as an essential theme of the movie was inescapably diminished by the casting of Hollywood star Meryl Streep as Susan: "[…] it inevitably loses some of its political edge[…] in ceding to the Hollywood fame machine."

(albeit it had been a Canadian actor, Kate Nelligan, who had originally taken the part on the London and New York stages).

[9][10][11] A tie-in-novel by Andrew Osmond built on the movie's popularity with a pulp account of the post-war life of Lazar, Susan's lover.