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Nov. 16, 2009 7:51 AM ET (AP)
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Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Alfred Molina, Catherine McCormack, Rupert Friend, Joanna Scanlan
Synopsis: A movie set becomes a metaphor for the tragic rise of World War II in Europe in this historical drama. It's 1939, and as Benito Mussolini rules Italy and war sweeps through Europe, Italian film producer Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina) is attempting to set up his latest project, a historical epic Read More
Actors: Colm Meaney, Bernard Hill, Andrea Corr, Philip Barantini, Charlotte Bradley
Synopsis: British filmmaker John Irvin directs the musical comedy drama The Boys From County Clare. Set in the late '60s, the story involves a pair of rival brothers reuniting for the All-Ireland Traditional Music Competition in County Clare, Ireland. As defending champion John Joe (Bernard Hill) gets his Read More
Actors: Mary Nighy, Natalia Tena, Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Anna Maguire, Emily Pimm
Actors: Armand Assante
Synopsis: A vicious serial killer is broadcasting his brutal slayings live on the Internet for all to see, and the only hope to put an end to his voyeuristic killing spree is a morphine-addicted detective in this thriller from Ghost Story director John Irvin. The technologically savvy madman has struck once Read More
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Priestley, Ian McNeice
Synopsis: An ordinary man remakes himself into a warrior after the death of his family in this thriller. Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) is a magazine editor living in London with his wife and three children. Elgin joins his spouse and his children as they set off for a trip to India, and when the plane lands due Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Claire Rushbrook, Frank Harper
Synopsis: A minor-league criminal suddenly finds himself in deep trouble in this thriller. Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Michael Caine) is a man who has spent much of his life making a living by skirting the law, but he thinks he may finally have a legitimate path to the big time managing his son Eddie (Matthew Read More
Actors: Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, James Coburn
Synopsis: The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV movie and first aired on NBC in May 1999. Noah Jon Voight is an ordinary laborer who one day begins receiving messages from God. It seems the Lord has a special assignment for Read More
Actors: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno, Martin Donovan
Synopsis: John Irvin directed this gripping and effective WWII drama set amid the carnage and slaughter of the Hurtgen Forest battle when the Allies moved on toward Germany in the fall of 1944. Private Manning (Ron Eldard) hopes for a Section 8 switch away from the frontline combat, but when he's the only Read More
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Famke Janssen, Timothy Hutton, Wade Dominguez
Synopsis: Betrayal and revenge are the key ingredients of this violent, streetwise crime drama. Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel) was once a highly successful thief but has gotten out of the business and now leads a quiet life in the Midwest. He's lured out of retirement by his brother, Lee (Timothy Hutton); Lee Read More
Actors: Michael Greyeyes, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, August Schellenberg, Ned Beatty
Synopsis: The true-story of Native American legend Crazy Horse is told in this made-for-cable movie. Michael Greyeyes stars as the Oglala Sioux warrior who battled for freedom against encroaching westward expansion and fought General Custer and his forces at Little Big Horn. Filmed on location in South Read More
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli, Alessandro Gassman
Synopsis: This romantic comedy is set upon Italy's beautiful Lake Como just before WW II erupted in Europe. British, middle-aged, but still-attractive Miss Bentley has come to the lake to visit the family resort. She has not been there since her father died and since her 14-year relationship with a married Read More
Actors: Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent
Synopsis: In the Irish town of Kilshannon in the 1920s, a matriarchal clique of widows tightly sets the rules for behavior. Heading the town's ruling circle is the doughty Mrs. Counihan (Joan Plowright). The only non-widow in town is a reclusive middle-aged spinster, Miss O'Hare (Mia Farrow), who seems to Read More
Actors: Eric Roberts, Jeff Fahey, Pam Gidley, Ron Smerczak
Synopsis: While on a special assignment to Africa to photograph an endangered bird, a wildlife photographer runs into a dashing experienced stranger. Though she is engaged to her publisher, the photographer embarks upon a wild night of passion with the stranger, unaware that in so doing, she is about to Read More
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May, Paul Freeman, Anthony Bate
Synopsis: Polish bureaucrat Jozef Burski (Donald Sutherland) all but loses his reason for living when he is "downsized" by his government. Reduced to non-person status, Burski reaches out to his friends for moral support, but they turn their backs on him. Worse still, he doesn't know why he's been targeted Read More
Actors: Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Fox, Jeroen Krabbé
Synopsis: Initially conceived as a theatrical feature, but originally aired on television in the United States, Robin Hood puts slight, but effective, twists on the legendary tale. Starring Patrick Bergin in the title role, the film follows Robin and his group of bandits as they fight Prince John and save Read More
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Andreas Katsulas
Synopsis: When his brother is murdered, a policeman is caught between his devotion to the law and his family's desire for revenge in this action drama. Patrick Swayze plays Truman Gates, who left his backwoods Appalachian home for life as a Chicago police officer. When his brother is killed by a gangster Read More
Actors: Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan, Don James
Synopsis: Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Americans who fought and died in Vietnam. Based on a true incident, the story takes place in 1969, as the 101st Airborne Division confronts the Vietcong Read More
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Robert Davi, Darren McGavin
Synopsis: A former FBI agent is recruited to root out the gangsters who killed a fellow agent's son in this Arnold Schwarzenegger action film. After being booted out of the bureau for excessive violence, Kaminski (Schwarzenegger) lives in small-town exile with his bitter wife, Amy (Blanche Baker). He gets Read More
Actors: Harold Pinter, Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon, Rosemary Leach
Synopsis: Adapted by Harold Pinter from the novel by Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary stars Glenda Jackson as a famed author/illustrator of children's books. In the midst of her success, Jackson suffers from writer's block. While casting about for new ideas, she makes several visits to the turtle tank at the Read More
Actors: John Hurt, Edward Woodward, Jan Francis, Peter Barkworth
Synopsis: John Hurt plays the British jockey Bob Champion in this true story of how Champion overcame cancer and the rigors of chemotherapy for an impressive personal and professional comeback. Just as Champion is in the middle of a vacation in Kentucky, he finds out he has cancer, and, like others before Read More
Synopsis: As they become deeply involved in a romance, a couple learn that love takes time and patience. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman
Synopsis: Christopher Walken stars in John Irvin's graphic adaptation of Frederick Forsythe's novel about a mercenary sent to overthrow the government of an African country. Walken is Shannon, an American soldier of fortune who has staged incidents in Central America and Africa that helped topple Read More
Actors: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson
Synopsis: This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who Read More
Actors: Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston
Synopsis: Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service Read More
Actors: Patrick Allen, Timothy West, Jacqueline Tong, Edward Fox
Synopsis: Strange as it seems, the 1977 adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times was the first full-scale adaptation of this work ever seen on British television. Set (of course!) during the Industrial Revolution, the multiplotted story line was held together by the travails of Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong Read More
Actors: Jeremy Brett, Lesley Dunlop, Natasha Parry
Synopsis: Produced for British television, Haunted: The Ferryman is based on a story by Kingsley Amis. Jeremy Brett plays a novelist whose work begins permeating his consciousness day and night. The writer is haunted by visions of the characters he has created and will create. Foremost among these phantoms Read More
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