Charles is Derek du Pré in Hilary and Jackie in 1998

Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 film based on book A Genius in the Family by Piers and Hilary du Pré which chronicles the life and career of their late sister, cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

The film is divided into two sections, the first telling events from Hilary's point of view and the second from Jackie's

The last quarter of the movie chronicles in detail the last fifteen years of Jacqueline's life: she is diagnosed with sclerosis, loses control of her nervous system, becomes paralysed, goes deaf and mute, and finally dies.