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Jim Broadbent joins Indy 4 -
21 June 2007
British actor Jim Broadbent is to join the cast of the eagerly-awaited fourth Indiana Jones movie, it has emerged.-Broadbent, who has appeared in a wide range of films such as Hot Fuzz, Moulin Rouge, Vanity Fair and Robots, is to star alongside Ray Winstone, Harrison F
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Walken to replace Broadbent in Hairspray -
17 August 2006
Legendary dancer and cult actor Christopher Walken is to replace Jim Broadbent in Hairspray, according to reports.-Industry paper Variety reported that the academy award winning Jim Broadbent, known for his roles in Iris, Bridget Jones' Diary and Moulin Rouge, has been
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Jim Broadbent - filmography
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The Young Victoria
(2009)
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
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From Academy Award winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese comes the story of Queen Victoria's early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle in to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria.
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Due for release on 13th July 2009
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The Damned United
(2009)
Starring: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney
Director: Tom Hooper
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The chameleon-like Michael Sheen - an actor that has already portrayed Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and Sir David Frost in FROST/NIXON - stars as Brian Clough: the short-lived manager of Leeds United in the 1970s.
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Due for release on 31st August 2009
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Inkheart - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
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A girl's father has the ability to summon book characters to life by reading aloud. When a nasty, rotten pack of rogues from a fable kidnap Pops, our heroine must join forces with her fictional friends and rescue him.
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Lost And Found
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jim Broadbent
Director: Philip Hunt
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Once there was a boy and one day he found a penguin at his door. He didn't know where it came from or who it belonged to. The penguin looked sad and the boy thought it must be lost. So he decided to help it find its way home, even if that meant rowing all the way to the South Pole.
Based on the ..read more »
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Inkheart
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
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A girl's father has the ability to summon book characters to life by reading aloud. When a nasty, rotten pack of rogues from a fable kidnap Pops, our heroine must join forces with her fictional friends and rescue him.
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Hot Fuzz
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Bailey
Director: Edgar Wright
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
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Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Bailey
Director: Edgar Wright
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
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from 1,305 member
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Hot Fuzz - BLU-RAY Version
(2007)
Starring: Anne Reid, Steve Coogan, Nick Frost
Director: Edgar Wright
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Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action ..read more »
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Due for release on 27th July 2009
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Longford
(2006)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Kika Markham
Director: Tom Hooper
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Mere mention of convicted child murderer Myra Hindley's name is enough to send shivers down the spines of most people in her native U.K. This HBO drama concerns the strange friendship Hindley struck up with a British Lord, Frank Aungier Pakenham (the seventh Earl of Longford), after she was ..read more »
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Art School Confidential
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, Matt Keeslar
Director: Terry Zwigoff
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Art School Confidential follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist, like his hero Picasso. Unfortunately, the beauty and craft of Jerome's ..read more »
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from 1,879 member
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Street, The - Series 1 - Complete
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent, Sue Johnston
Director: Jimmy McGovern
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This gripping six part drama, marks the return of award winning writer Jimmy McGovern to the small screen, delving into the extraordinary lives of ordinary people at momentous points in their lives. With an all star cast, including Oscar winning Jim Broadbent (The Chronicles of Narnia and Moulin ..read more »
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Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Director: Beeban Kidron
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It would be difficult to top the phenomenal success of BRIDGET JONES' DIARY, but the sequel certainly pulls it off. The incomparable Renee Zellweger (JERRY MACGUIRE, COLD MOUNTAIN) once again breathes hilarious life into the flawed heroine who sent her career soaring. This instalment of Bridget's ..read more »
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Vera Drake
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Estelle Harris, Phil Davis
Director: Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh produces another devastating masterpiece with the heartbreaking VERA DRAKE. Imelda Staunton is the title character, beloved wife of Stan (Phil Davis) and mother of Sid (Daniel Mays) and Ethel (Alex Kelly). Vera spends her days cleaning houses for money and looking in on elderly and sick ..read more »
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Around The World In 80 Days
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Robert Fyfe
Director: Frank Coraci
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In this raucous Disney adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, Steve Coogan plays Phileas Fogg, a quirky inventor at the turn of the 20th century. After suffering rejection by England's Royal Academy of Science, Fogg strives to prove his scientific worth by ..read more »
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Bright Young Things
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen, Fry
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Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
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Gangs Of New York - BLU-RAY Version
(2002)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Day-Lewis
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with tension and violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, ..read more »
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Nicholas Nickleby
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Stella Gonet, Romola Garai
Director: Douglas McGrath
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An adaptation of one of Charles Dicken's best-loved stories. Nicholas Nickleby becomes the head of his family after the untimely death of his father and discovers that due to his father's bad investments the family has been left with no money. Nicholas has to turn to his wealthy uncle for ..read more »
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The King's Beard
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Maria Darling, Robin Edwards
Director: Tony Collingwood
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An animated children's tale in which Rufus, an aspiring barber, finds himself with no business because everyone wants to look like the King who has a magnificent beard. Rufus bravely cuts off the King's beard and finds himself in the middle of a magical adventure.
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Gangs Of New York
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Director: Martin Scorsese
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In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
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Bridget Jones's Diary
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Director: Sharon Maguire
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In the screen adaptation of BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, Helen Fielding's international best-selling phenomenon, documentary filmmaker (and real-life inspiration for the character Shazzer) Sharon Maguire has managed a rare feat - a film as captivating as the novel. Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a ..read more »
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Iris
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Richard Eyre
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Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height ..read more »
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the ..read more »
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Topsy-Turvy
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall
Director: Mike Leigh
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Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director's most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous period just before the conception and production of the pair's THE MIKADO (first staged in ..read more »
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Little Voice
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent
Director: Mark Herman
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In a dreary English seaside town, one of it's timid inhabitants, known as LV (Little Voice), mourns over her dead father and obsesses over his record collection by singing along to his favorite performers. Her rare talents for emulating the dulcet tones of Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley ..read more »
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The Borrowers
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie
Director: Peter Hewitt
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Children's author Mary Norton's storybook creations, the four-inch-tall family of "borrowers" who live among humans and co-opt their possessions, get a first-rate big-screen translation. When a crooked lawyer (a gleefully over-the-top Goodman) takes over the Lender family's house, he's got to ..read more »
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The Secret Agent
(1996)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Christopher Hampton
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The life of an undercover Russian agent, posing as a quiet shopkeeper in London in order to infiltrate a ring of anarchists, is thrown into turmoil when his employers order him to plant a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory. Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad.
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from 20 members
Not currently released
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The Last Englishman
(1995)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Tony Haygarth, Matthew Ashforde
Director: John Henderson
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Jim Broadbent is Col. Alfred D. Wintle, a maverick with a brilliant mind and intense convictions. Inflexible, outspoken and chauvinistic to the end, he proclaimed to all who would listen that he thanked God every night that he was English. A fascinating tale of pride, strength and the ultimate cost ..read more »
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Rough Magic
(1995)
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent
Director: Clare Peploe
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An introspective magician's assistant (Bridget Fonda) realizes her true powers while adrift on a fanciful journey through rural Mexico, pursued by a gritty P.I. (Russell Crowe) hired by her eccentric millionaire fiance. A curious blend of outlandish magical realism and the standard "gumshoe" ..read more »
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Richard III
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent
Director: Richard Loncraine
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This updating of Shakespeare's classic history sets the tale in a stark version of 1930's Europe and features Sir Ian McKellen as the titular ruthless malcontent out to wrest control of the throne of England from any who would oppose him. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Art Direction ..read more »
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Wide-Eyed and Legless
(1994)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Thora Hird, Moya Brady
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but ..read more »
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Princess Caraboo
(1994)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline
Director: Michael Austin
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Princess Caraboo is kidnapped from her Pacific island palace of luxury and escapes a pirate's ship, swimming for her life into an English village where nobody knows her name and her language. It takes time, and time again for her to tell her story with her hands and eyes, and slowly, the village ..read more »
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Bullets Over Broadway
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Woody Allen
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David Shayne (John Cusack, in performance his character that of a young Woody Allen) is an idealistic young playwright whose life (and play) is about to be turned upside down as it heads toward Broadway. In order to gain financing for GOD OF OUR FATHERS, Shayne agrees to hire Olive Neal (a ..read more »
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The Crying Game
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker
Director: Neil Jordan
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This highly original film put screenwriter/director Neil Jordan on the international map. The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard Jody, and they ..read more »
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Gone To The Dogs
(2 discs)
(1991)
Starring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Harry Enfield
Director: Sandy Johnson, Tony Dow
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Set around the not so glamourous world of greyhound racing in London's East End, this comic drama features an excellent cast of British actors. When Jim (Jim Broadbent) is ..read more »
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Life Is Sweet
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall
Director: Mike Leigh
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Director Mike Leigh escapes the confines of direct-to-television films with this incredibly bittersweet slice-of-life comedy about a blue-collar family living in modern-day England. Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) are a good-natured couple with two daughters, Nicola (Jane Horrocks) ..read more »
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Richard Boden
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A special festive edition of the comedy classic that see's the Victorian Blackadder, and his not so trusty sidekick Baldrick, visit his Elizabethan and Regency ancestors as well as his future relatives in a clever spoof of the Charles Dickens' novel.
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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »
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Loving Walter
(1982)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen Frears
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The frustrations of Thatcher-era government social services are the backdrop for this touching story of a mentally challenged man (Ian McKellan from LORD OF THE RINGS) who wanders through the system and is helped by various townpeople.
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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Plunging headfirst into history, director Terry Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children's fairy tales to bear as he navigates through myth and legend in a bizarre, ingenious retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ. A boy and six good-natured little persons careen through time-twisting interactions ..read more »
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Percy The Park Keeper - The Classic Coll...
on DVD
Starring: Percy, Jim Broadbent
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Adventures with Percy, the Park Keeper. Featuring the episodes 'The Hedgehog's Balloon', 'The Fox's Hiccups', 'One Warm Fox', 'The Rabbit Who Was Afraid Of The Dark', 'Sledge Ride', 'The Hedgehog's Wings', 'The Owl's Lesson', 'Badger's Bath', 'Owl Takes Charge' and 'A Very Useful Little Friend'.
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Tales Of The Riverbank
on DVD
Starring: Peter Serafinowicz, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan
Director: John Henderson
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Tales Of The Riverbank follows the adventures of three animal friends - Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat And GP the Guinea Pig. After a violent storm they were washed away down the river. They set out on an epic journey to try to find their old homes, but on the way they discover the whole riverbank is ..read more »
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Acorn Antiques
on DVD
Starring: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie
Director: Geoffrey Posner
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All the sketches from the classic spoof soap!
Thrill to the heartwarming exploits of these antique-loving scallywags as they ply their skilled (or perhaps not so skilled) trade, in that tiny (and yet, at times, not so tiny) shop on the outskirts of Manchesterford.
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Percy The Park Keeper - The Secret Path
on DVD
Starring: Jim Broadbent
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In the secret path, its a beautiful spring morning and Percy is very busy. He is about to start work on the old maze which has become overgrown. Percy's friends see him setting off and decide to give him a big surprise.
In The Rescue Party, it's a perfect summer's afternoon and Percy is jolly ..read more »
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Murder Most Horrid Vol. 1
on DVD
Starring: Dawn French, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall
Director: Bob Spiers
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Dawn French stars in this comedy drama, playing a different character in each episode. Contains the episodes 'The Case Of The Missing', 'The Girl From Ipanema', 'He Died A Death', 'A Determined Woman', 'Murder At Tea Time', and 'Mrs. Hat And Mrs. Red'.
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Tales of the Riverbank
to Watch Now
(2008)
Starring: Stephen Fry, Peter Serafinowicz, Miranda Hart
Director: John Henderson
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Run time: 80 minutes
TALES OF THE RIVERBANK tells the story of three friends ? Hammy Hamster (Ardal O'Hanlon), Roderick Rat (Steve Coogan) and GP the Guinea Pig (Jim Broadbent) ? who, having been swept down-river in a violent storm, embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey, full of comic ..read more »
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Jim Broadbent facts
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16 March 2004
...hile, Bridget's mum Pam has a little surprise of her own for her husband Colin (Jim Broadbent). And, as often happens at times like this . . . wackiness ensues.
What aud...
Very moving 23 November 2005
