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Filmography

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  • Best - His Mother's Son on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Michelle Fairley,  Tom Payne,  Bronagh Taggart
    Director: Colin Barr
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Factual drama about how the glamour-studded career of Britain's most famous footballer destroyed the life not only of George Best himself, but also of the close-knit family that he had left behind in Belfast. At the same time as high living began to take its toll on George's own career, his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 38 members
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  • Butterfly Kiss on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Amanda Plummer,  Kathy Jamieson,  Saskia Reeves
    Director: Michael Winterbottom
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Michael Winterbottom's first theatrical feature is a wildly anarchic road movie in which two lesbians fall for each other while speeding through Northern England on a murder spree. Amanda Plummer stars as the exuberantly off-kilter Eunice and Saskia Reeves plays the obsessive Miriam, who falls ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 654 members
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  • Mike Leigh At The BBC (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Roger Sloman,  Alison Steadman,  Brid Brennan
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hard Labour: Mike Leigh's first TV drama for the BBC in 1973. Shot entirely on location in Leigh's native Salford, Hard Labour depicts the grinding daily routine of stoical domestic cleaner Mrs Thornley and her cantankerous family. The Permissive Society: The title is ironic - a popular expression ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,120 member
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