A little boy attempts to prevent a wisecracking goose from becoming the tastiest dish in a high-profile culinary contest in...
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2009
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Mark S. Waters's adaptation of the popular fantasy novels The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the tale of the Graces, a family...
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2008
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Director Anthony Hickox (Waxwork) returns to the horror genre with this rural frightener about a Wall Street stockbroker who...
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Marjorie
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2008
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The naughty little monkey from Margret Rey and H.A. Rey's beloved children's stories makes the leap to the big screen in this...
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2006
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An elderly widow and a young would-be author strike up an unlikely friendship in this comedy drama. Mrs. Palfrey...
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Mrs. Palfrey
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2005
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A young boy is sent on a remarkable odyssey as he flees a Communist prison camp in this historical drama, set in Eastern...
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Sophie
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2004
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A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson...
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2003
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The family friendly adventure film George and the Dragon tells the tale of a knight who, upon returning home after an...
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2003
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A mournful look at the last days of opera diva Maria Callas, director Franco Zeffirelli's biographical drama attempts to...
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Sarah Keller
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2002
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Veteran hack director Sidney J. Furie directs the silly straight-to-video comedy Rock My World. The aging stuffy English...
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Lady Foxley
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2001
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"Bailey's Mistake" is the apt cognomen for a dismal, virtually uninhabitable island off the coast of Maine. Upon finding that...
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Aunt Aggie
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2001
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Walt Disney Pictures redefined computer animation with this technically accomplished fantasy of prehistoric life, combining...
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2000
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Home Vision Cinema presents Christmas Glory From Westminster. This program features poetry and music from celebrities from...
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2000
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Although Frances Hodgson Burnett did not feel the need to write a sequel to her classic fantasy novel The Secret Garden, this...
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2000
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Two friends get their first taste of adult responsibilities in this made-for-cable comedy-drama. Francesca (Mischa Barton)...
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Phoebe
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2000
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Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a...
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Mary
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1999
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More chilling than fiction, this taut drama chronicles the CIA's search to prove that one of its agents has succumbed to...
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1998
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In this TV sitcom, damaged vocal cords cut short the career of egomaniacal opera star Joe Pinoni (Nathan Lane), prompting his...
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Marie Pinoni
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1998
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This fantasy for younger audiences concerns Tom (Anthony Way), a 14-year-old English boy who in the 1950s is sent to live...
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1998
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Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of...
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Bea Johnson
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1998
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Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by...
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Ida Bober
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1997
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Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's...
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Mrs. Fairfax
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1996
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This unusual biography of the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is a Merchant-Ivory film. The team of director...
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1996
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There are more puppies than you can shake a rolled up newspaper at in this live-action remake of the Disney animated favorite...
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Nanny
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1996
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Popular comic and television personality Ellen DeGeneres had her first starring role in a feature film in this black comedy....
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Mrs. Crawford
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1996
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Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual...
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1995
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1995
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This Australian drama is an adaptation of Hannie Rayson's award-winning play. It is the tale of the three Moynihan sisters,...
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1995
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1995
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This complex political drama zeroes in on the life of a small bourgeois family living in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. It is set...
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Grandma
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1994
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In the Irish town of Kilshannon in the 1920s, a matriarchal clique of widows tightly sets the rules for behavior. Heading the...
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Mrs. Doyle Counihan
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1994
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Set in the South during the 1950s, this touching youth-oriented drama recounts the tragic events that lead a rich, white...
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Mrs. Appletree
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1994
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Unlike the barren and forbidding moors elsewhere in England, Return of the Native's Egdon Heath attires itself in vibrant...
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1994
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In this touching drama, a kind-hearted pediatric nurse tries to adopt an HIV-positive baby and ends up taking care of its...
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Dorothy
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1994
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Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark...
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1993
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Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on...
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Mrs. Monro
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1993
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John Hughes continues the trend he began with the Home Alone series in Dennis the Menace, the Hughes-scripted film version of...
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Mrs. Martha Wilson
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1993
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Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first...
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Mrs. Fisher
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1992
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The made-for-cable film Stalin relates the story of the ruthless Soviet dictator and his tyrannical rule. Robert Duvall gives...
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Olga
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1992
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Originally aired on the Masterpiece Theatre television series and set in Great Britain towards the end of WW II, this...
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1991
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Eva Krichinsky
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1990
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Lawrence Kasdan's black comedy about a wife's ultimate revenge against her womanizing husband is based on a true story about...
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Nadja
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1990
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The brilliant young British actress Jane Horrocks made her film debut in The Dressmaker. She plays Rita, the 17-year-old...
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Aunt Nellie
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1988
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A man and his mother recall his youth. ~ Rovi...
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1988
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Peter Greenaway wrote and directed this typically surreal and iconoclastic black comedy. Three generations of women who share...
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1st Cissie Colpitts
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1988
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When a workaholic businessman needs to be married to maintain a good image, he asks a woman to pose as his wife. The film is...
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1986
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This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story...
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Mrs. McConnahay
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1985
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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1983
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This dark comedy charts the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a...
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Phyllis
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1982
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The arrival of a mysterious stranger disrupts the lives of the members of a British family in this dark, psychological...
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Norma Bates
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1982
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The diary of teenaged Holocaust victim Anne Frank was first published in book form in 1952, then adapted into a Pulitzer...
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1980
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Sir Laurence Olivier stars in this film about a group of people in a Soho restaurant who are all invited by a boisterous...
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1978
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Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In...
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Dora Strang
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1977
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1976
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Olivier stars in this production of the Shakespearean tragedy about greed and vengeance. ~ Rovi...
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Portia
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1973
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Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their...
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Masha
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1970
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This televised adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, originally screened on Britain's ITV in 1969, stars Alec...
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1969
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This Victorian comedy is a British television adaptation of Richard Sheridan's then famous play. The story is set in Lady...
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1965
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This version of Chekov's classic play was recorded at the 1963 Chichester Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1963
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Jean Rice
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1960
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Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted...
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1957
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Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John...
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1956
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1954
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