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Oct. 31, 2009 5:41 PM ET (AP)
Synopsis: A thieving band of orphans who steal from the rich simply to survive encounter a supernatural merry-go-round with mysterious powers in this screen adaptation of award-winning author Cornelia Funke's popular series of children's books. Left in the care of their abusive aunt following the death of Read More
Actors: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce
Synopsis: Peter Hewitt (Tom and Huck) directed this $30-million family film, an adaptation of Mary Norton's classic children's novels about a miniature family of wee folk, four inches high, living beneath the floorboards of an English cottage. The Borrowers family, so labeled because they "borrow" from the Read More
Actors: Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting
Synopsis: The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an unusual and perversely entertaining spin on the classic tea-cup-and-intrigue mystery. Sir Hugo Coal (Alan Bates) is a grumpy, eccentric English gentleman (and Read More
Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth
Synopsis: This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a Read More
Actors: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Tim Preece, Roy Evans, John Rogan, Earl Rhodes, Bob Goody
Synopsis: Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies before naming his successor gets the big screen treatment in director Robert Knights' four-part comedy. Porterhouse College is an institute of higher education steeped in Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Leslie Sands, Robin Driscoll, David Sibley, Gary Olsen, Peter Jonfield
Synopsis: The six episodes which comprised this British sitcom largely took place in the Sun, a seedy suburban London pub. The stories dealt with the oftimes bizarre misadventures of the pub's staff and customers, à la Cheers. Most of the attention was focused upon unemployed flat-mates Moon (Robin Read More
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