Emma Thompson Filmography

Last Chance Harvey

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker, James Brolin

Synopsis: Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson star in writer/director Joel Hopkins' gentle romantic drama Last Chance Harvey. Hoffman plays a man at the end of his rope, for whom nothing is seemingly going right. While in London for his daughter's wedding, he meets Thompson, and strikes up an unlikely Read More

An Education

Actors: Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike

Synopsis: A suburban teen in the midst of London's swinging '60s life is shaken up when a handsome socialite hits town in this coming-of-age drama from director Lone Scherfig (Just Like Home). Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, and Emma Thompson star in the BBC Films production. ~ Jeremy Read More

Brideshead Revisited

Actors: Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of love and the British class system has been given a polished screen adaptation in this film version from director Julian Jarrold. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) was raised in a middle-class household and though he's never known want and is fortunate enough to have Read More

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of studies, only to find that the magical community seems to be in a curious state of denial about his recent encounter with the sinister Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in the fifth installment of the Read More

Stranger Than Fiction

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: A socially isolated IRS agent whose every move is documented by a disembodied female voice discovers that his life is the subject of a book currently being written by a best-selling author, whose creative block has stunted her repeated efforts to kill him off, in a quirky fantasy comedy written by Read More

Nanny McPhee

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Patrick Barlow, Thomas Sangster

Synopsis: A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on the "Nurse Matilda" books for children by Christianna Brand. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) is a widower who must tend to his business as an Read More

Imagining Argentina

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Rubén Blades, Maria Canals, Leticia Dolera

Synopsis: Accomplished British screenwriter Christopher Hampton directs the political drama Imagining Argentina, based on the novel by Lawrence Thornton. Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda (Antonio Banderas Read More

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

Love Actually

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson, Andrew Lincoln

Synopsis: All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of Read More

Angels in America

Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Patrick Wilson, Ben Shenkman

Synopsis: The epic HBO miniseries Angels in America is directed by Mike Nichols and written by the play's author, Tony Kushner. This six-part drama is adapted from the two full-length award-winning plays (Part I: The Millennium Approaches and Part II: Perestroika) originally performed on Broadway in 1993. Read More

Treasure Planet

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of adventure Treasure Island gets a science fiction update in this animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures. Jim (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar Read More

Maybe Baby

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Dawn French, Tom Hollander, Hugh Laurie, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: In this light comedy directed by British writer-comedian Ben Elton, Sam and Lucy Bell (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) are an upwardly mobile London couple who are trying desperately to conceive a baby. Along for the ride, which is laden with sperm-count and hormone-injection jokes, is a cast Read More

Wit

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald

Synopsis: Mike Nichols directs Emma Thompson in this made-for-cable adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Margaret Edson. Thompson plays Vivian Bearing, a college professor who teaches a course on English poetry. Vivian learns that she has advanced ovarian cancer and only a short time to live Read More

Primary Colors

Actors: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a Read More

Judas Kiss

Actors: Simon Baker-Denny, Gil Bellows, Carla Gugino, Alan Rickman, Til Schweiger

Synopsis: Young lovers and small-time New Orleans scammers Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) move up a few rungs when they kidnap wealthy computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise) in Sebastian Gutierrez's neo-noir. During the crime, Coco kills Dyson's girlfriend, Patty (Beverly Penberthy Read More

The Winter Guest

Actors: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood, Arlene Cockburn, Sheila Reid

Synopsis: Adapted from a stage play by Sharman McDonald, this film marks the directorial debut of British character actor Alan Rickman. Set against a bleak winter landscape of rural Scotland, the story centers around the recently widowed Frances (Emma Thompson) and a visit from her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law Read More

Carrington

Actors: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: Carrington is the true story of the peculiar love affair between two nonconformists in Victorian England: painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and author Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Dora is a young English artist who is part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of British writers Read More

Sense and Sensibility

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

My Father The Hero

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton, Faith Prince

Synopsis: Disney not only recycled the French farce Mon Pere, Ce Heros but brought back the lead actor of the original, Gerard Depardieu, for the Americanized remake My Father, the Hero. Depardieu plays Andre, the loving but neglectful French father of fourteen-year old Nicole (Katherine Heigl), who now Read More

Junior

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, Pamela Reed

Synopsis: Ultimate manly man Arnold Schwarzenegger learns what it's like to be an expectant mother in director Ivan Reitman's high-concept comedy. Schwarzenegger plays Dr. Hess, a medical researcher working on a revolutionary drug to help mothers carry endangered infants to term. When government regulations Read More

The Blue Boy

Actors: Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar

Synopsis: The ghost of a dead child preoccupies a woman in this British made-for-television supernatural thriller. Emma Thompson stars as Marie, a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage to philandering husband Joe (Adrian Dunbar). When the couple goes on holiday, Marie gets obsessed with the ghost of a little Read More

The Remains of the Day

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the "perfect" butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly Read More

In the Name of the Father

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal Read More

Much Ado About Nothing

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Actor Kenneth Branagh made his directorial debut with a rousing screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. Four years later, he returns to the bard's work with this lively version of one of Shakespeare's best comedies. Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), the Prince of Aragon, returns Read More

Peter's Friends

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Phyllida Law, Rita Rudner, Imelda Staunton

Synopsis: This comedy drama, a sort of British version of The Big Chill (1983), was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) Read More

Howards End

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, James Wilby, Samuel West

Synopsis: One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part Read More

Cheers: One Hugs, the Other Doesn't

Synopsis: Emma Thompson guest stars as Nanny Gee, a popular children's singer whose sappy compositions make Barney the Dinosaur's ballads sound like Cole Porter. When Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) suggests that baby Frederick might enjoy Nanny's upcoming Boston concert, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is forced into a Read More

Dead Again

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two star-crossed lovers -- and the doomed passion they shared in their last lifetime. Los Angeles detective Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) comes to the aid of mute, amnesia-victim Grace (Emma Thompson Read More

Impromptu

Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted around wearing pants and smoking cigars in public. No great shakes today, but in the 1800s she was perhaps the most famous (or infamous) woman in the world. One of the first Read More

The Tall Guy

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Emil Wolk, Geraldine James

Synopsis: Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) is an actor who spends his nights on-stage in London's West End as a comedic punching bag for obnoxiously self-centered comedian Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson). He gets hit in the head with hammers, he trips, and he stands by dumbly as Anderson gets all the laughs. His Read More

Henry V

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: Kenneth Branagh makes his feature film directorial debut with this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. After the Chorus (Derek Jacobi) introduces the play, young king of England Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) begins an angry dialogue with King Charles of France (Paul Scofield). The king's son Read More

Look Back in Anger

Actors: Siobhan Redmond, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: Made for British television, 1989's Look Back in Anger is the third film adaptation of John Osborne's legendary "kitchen sink" stage drama. Kenneth Branagh plays working-class roisterer Jimmy Porter, the archetypal "angry young man" whose college education has led nowhere. Stuck in a go-nowhere Read More

Fortunes of War

Synopsis: Originally produced for the BBC, the seven-part Fortunes of War was adapted from Olivia Manning's "The Balkan Trilogy" and "The Levant Trilogy". Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, who in 1987 were husband and wife, star as Guy and Harriet Pringle, a British couple who move to Rumania in 1939. As Read More

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