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  • Broadbent & Smith battling it out for top TV BAFTA - 26 April 2011
    -Harry Potter star Jim Broadbent and Doctor Who actor Matt Smith are among the stars who will fight it out for the top honour at the upcoming British Academy (BAFTA) Television Awards.-Broadbent has been tipped in the Leading Actor category for his role in Any Human He


  • Broadbent draws on family agony again - 19 April 2011
    -Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent revisited the agony of watching his mother battle Alzheimer's disease to play a man afflicted with the condition in a new drama.-The Harry Potter star takes on the role of an Alzheimer's sufferer in BBC drama Exile, and has revealed h


  • Broadbent wins acting prize at Royal Television Society Awards - 17 March 2011
    -Veteran actor Jim Broadbent picked up a prestigious prize for his moving role in Any Human Heart at the Royal Television Society Awards in London on Tuesday (15Mar11).- -The Bridget Jones's Diary star walked away with the Best Actor trophy for his portrayal of Logan M

Jim Broadbent - what members say


  • Gathering Storm
  • Gathering Storm review by leeds6white from West Yorkshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Another triumph 20 March 2004
    ...er. Backed up by a superb cast of British luminaries including Derek Jacobi, Jim Broadbent and Vanessa Redgrave as Winston’s long suffering wife Clemmie, this is another ...   Read customer review
  • The Street - Series 1 - Complete
  • The Street - Series 1 - Complete review by from N Ireland
    Rated - 4.0 stars Enjoyable 12 August 2006
    ...orry if I'm being fussy here but I found the acting rather poor in this series. Jim Broadbent is of course very good. However, Sue Johnston plays a particularly poor part, i...   Read customer review
  • The Young Victoria
  • The Young Victoria review by A customer from Stratford-upon-Avon
    Rated - 1.0 stars Good costumes , poor history 26 August 2009
    ...e was to be got from this film was in the bit parts, a lovely King 'Billy' from Jim Broadbent, perfect Robert Peel by Michael Maloney and an excellent Queen Adelaide from Ha...   Read customer review

Jim Broadbent - filmography


  • Cloud Atlas (2012)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Halle Berry,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Tom Tykwer,  Andy Wachowski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 262 members
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  • Cloud Atlas - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Halle Berry,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Tom Tykwer,  Andy Wachowski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4 members
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  • The Iron Lady - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Anthony Head,  Jim Broadbent,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Phyllida Lloyd
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Biopic starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's life and political career are portrayed in flashback from the perspective of her later years as she struggles with Alzheimer's disease and grieves for her recently-deceased ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 189 members
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  • Exile on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Olivia Coleman,  Shaun Dooley,  John Simm
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All three episodes of the BBC psychological thriller series starring John Simm as a journalist returning to his northern roots. With his career now in tatters, formerly successful London hack Tom Ronstadt (Simm) travels back to his Lancashire hometown to try to unravel the mysterious events ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 637 members
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  • Arthur Christmas on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Bill Nighy,  Matt Lucas
    Director: Barry Cook,  Sarah Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Arthur Christmas" at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 4,115 members
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  • Arthur Christmas - 3D Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: James McAvoy,  Jim Broadbent,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Sarah Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This animated seasonal family comedy is co-produced by Aardman Studios. The film shows the inner workings of the high-tech operation run at the North Pole by Santa (voiced by Jim Broadbent) and his sons, which enables them to get all the world's presents delivered in just one night. But behind this ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 401 members
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  • Another Year on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Ruth Sheen,  Lesley Manville
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Mike Leigh writes and directs this observational comedy drama depicting a year in the life of a contented middle-aged London couple. Medical counsellor Gerri (Ruth Sheen) is happily married to Tom (Jim Broadbent). The film follows Gerri over the course of the year as she opens her home and heart to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 21,073 members
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  • The Good Father (2010)
    Starring: Joanne Whalley,  Anthony Hopkins,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Anthony Hopkins and Jim Broadbent play two men, recently estranged from their wives and children, and trying to come to terms with their sense of frustration and despair. Directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings And A Funeral), this moving drama is packed with a rich array of stars including; Joanna ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 210 members
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  • The Young Victoria on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Emily Blunt,  Rupert Friend,  Paul Bettany
    Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 38,395 members
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  • The Damned United on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Michael Sheen,  Michael Sheen,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 29,079 members
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  • Perrier's Bounty - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Cillian Murphy,  Brendan Gleeson,  Jodie Whittaker
    Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    When Michael's (Cillian Murphy) debt to Dublin kingpin Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is called in and one of Perrier's goons accidentally ends up dead, Michael escapes to the mountains with his father Jim (Jim Broadbent) and best friend, Brenda. Flat broke, on the run and with only 24 hours to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,464 members
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  • Perrier's Bounty on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Cillian Murphy,  Brendan Gleeson,  Jodie Whittaker
    Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When Michael's (Cillian Murphy) debt to Dublin kingpin Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is called in and one of Perrier's goons accidentally ends up dead, Michael escapes to the mountains with his father Jim (Jim Broadbent) and best friend, Brenda. Flat broke, on the run and with only 24 hours to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 8,178 members
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  • Inkheart on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Andy Serkis,  Eliza Bennett
    Director: Iain Softley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 31,583 members
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  • Lost And Found on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Philip Hunt
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Animated film for children, narrated by Jim Broadbent. When a little boy finds a lonely penguin on his doorstep, at first he is unsure what to do. But he soon decides to help the penguin find his way back home - even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole...
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 804 members
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  • Inkheart - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Andy Serkis,  Eliza Bennett
    Director: Iain Softley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,029 members
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  • Bird Of Prey - Complete Series (2 discs) (2006)
    Starring: Carol Nimmons,  Jim Broadbent,  Richard Griffiths
    Director: Michael Rolfe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Griffiths stars in this seminal BBC political thriller as unassuming civil servant Henry Jay. Stumbling across a sophisticated computer fraud scam, Jay unwittingly derails the plans of a powerful criminal organisation. With a hired assassin dispatched to kill him, Jay finds himself on the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 218 members
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  • The Street - S01 E03 - Flasher (2006)
    Starring: Neil Dudgeon,  David Schofield,  Jane Horrocks
    Director: Jimmy McGovern
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The consequences are disastrous for a well-respected teacher when he is caught in an embarrassing situation whilst jogging through the park one night. Life seems to be going well for happily married Brian (Neil Dudgeon) and Ann Peterson (Lindsey Coulson), who live at No.36, with their three children.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11 members
  • Art School Confidential on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Anjelica Huston,  Sophia Myles
    Director: Terry Zwigoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy following a talented young artist, Jerome (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 portraiture are not ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,272 members
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  • Longford (2006)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Lindsay Duncan,  Kika Markham
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 39 members
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  • Robots - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Halle Berry,  Lucille Bliss,  Terry Bradshaw
    Director: Chris Wedge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Animated family comedy featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams and Halle Berry. Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor) is a small town robot who has a gift for inventing things and a hope of moving beyond his quaint surroundings. He works side by side in a restaurant with his dad who is a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 8 members
    Due for release on 5th July 2013
  • Robots on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Robin Williams,  Halle Berry
    Director: Carlos Saldanha,  Chris Wedge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Animated family comedy featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams and Halle Berry. Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor) is a small town robot who has a gift for inventing things and a hope of moving beyond his quaint surroundings. He works side by side in a restaurant with his dad who is a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 54,645 members
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  • The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the... on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Rupert Everett,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Andrew Adamson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Family adventure based on the classic novel by CS Lewis. Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley) are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 85,571 members
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  • The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the... (2005)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Rupert Everett,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Andrew Adamson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Family adventure based on the classic novel by CS Lewis. Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley) are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,330 members
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  • Vera Drake on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Imelda Staunton,  Jim Broadbent,  Phil Davis
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 51,972 members
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  • Vanity Fair on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Rhys Ifans,  James Purefoy,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mira Nair
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Adaptation of Thackeray's satirical masterpiece about the constant battle for wealth and social success amongst the aristocracy of the early nineteenth century. In a society growing rich on the wealth generated by an expanding empire, Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is the ambitious daughter of a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 21,399 members
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  • Around The World In 80 Days (2004)
    Starring: Steve Coogan,  Ian Mcneice,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Frank Coraci
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Playful retelling of Jules Verne's classic novel, starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan. Chan plays Passepartout, valet to the neurotic, time-obsessed English inventor, Phileas Fogg (Coogan), who has made a wager with fellow members at his London gentleman's club that he can traverse the globe in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 31,302 members
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  • Bright Young Things on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore,  Peter O'Toole,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Stephen Fry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Adam and his friends are young, party-goers who cannot keep still for a moment. Among all the madness, Adam is trying to raise enough money to marry Nina. While his attempts are constantly thwarted, his friends are slowly on the road to destruction in their search for newer and faster sensations.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,247 members
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  • Nicholas Nickleby on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Juliet Stevenson,  Charlie Hunnam,  Barry H
    Director: Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A tale based on the classic novel, "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens. Set in 19th Century England, the story revolves around the resourceful Nicholas Nickleby and his beloved family, as their world changes dramatically when tragedy strikes. The Nicklebys have always ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,788 members
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  • Gathering Storm on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Lena Headey,  Tom Wilkinson,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Albert Finney stars as Sir Winston Churchill in the years leading up to the Second World War, as he tries to warn Britain of the threat posed by Hitler and Nazi Germany. The film looks at his comeback from political obscurity and the personal sacrifices he made for his country.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,303 member
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  • Gangs Of New York on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  John C. Reilly,  Brendan Gleeson
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 45,529 members
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  • The King's Beard on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robin Edwards,  Maria Darling,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Tony Collingwood
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Young Rufus is a barber who comes to the Mirrored Kingdom with hopes of making his fortune cutting hair. But no one wants a haircut. They all want to grow their hair like the King, who has a beard so long that it runs out of his castle and flows down through the streets below. Rufus decides to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 65 members
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  • Bridget Jones's Diary on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sally Phillips,  Honor Blackman,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Sharon Maguire
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pity poor Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger). She's the 1990s British everywoman: single, weight-obsessed, and very probably drunk on mid-price white wine. Her life goes from middling to worse when she embarks on a doomed affair with silver-tongued boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). In the background ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 48,268 members
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  • Moulin Rouge on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Nicole Kidman,  Kylie Minogue
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry, defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party- hard life centers aound the Moulin Rouge, a world of sex, drugs, electricity ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 32,229 members
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  • Iris on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kate Winslet,  Kate Winslet,  Hugh Bonneville
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Real-life story of the enduring love between author Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, which lasts throughout her struggles against Alzheimer's disease.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,261 members
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  • Moulin Rouge - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Kylie Minogue,  Kerry W
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Christian (Ewan McGregor) is an aspiring bohemian writer, eking out a living in late 19th century Paris. An unlikely series of events result in him impersonating a Duke at the Moulin Rouge, Paris' most decadent club, and he falls tragically in love with its biggest star, Satine (Nicole Kidman). ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 276 members
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  • Percy the Park Keeper - S02 E03 (1999)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Roger McIntosh
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A little bird in the park can't get the hang of flying. Percy decides Owl may be able to help. Percy would be happy to have Badger to tea - if he'd have a bath after a heavy digging session. Percy has a cold and Owl decides he should stay in bed.
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  • Percy the Park Keeper - S02 E01 (1999)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Roger McIntosh
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Red, yellow and blue balloons are floating over the park and Percy catches them. Squirrel tells Fox a joke when he's drinking lemonade and he gets hiccups. Fox is finding the nights very cold.
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  • Percy the Park Keeper - S02 E04 (1999)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Roger McIntosh
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Mouse wants to help Percy, Fox and Badger tidy the shed but somehow just keeps getting in the way. Percy and Squirrel are off to look for treasure on Treasure Island. Old Rabbit is fed up with noisy young rabbits disturbing his sleep as they play in the snow.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
  • Percy the Park Keeper - S02 E02 (1999)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Roger McIntosh
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Rabbit is afraid of the dark and Percy tells her to eat some of his carrots - but she doesn't like them! Percy decides it's a great day to build a sledge. Hedgehog decides he wants to fly like a bird. He builds himself a pair of wings and the squirrel is worried he'll hurt himself.
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  • Topsy-Turvy on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ron Cook,  Wendy Nottingham,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    William Schwenck Gilbert is the librettist, writing the words. Arthur Sullivan is the composer, writing the music. Gilbert is the very model of a 19th-century British gentleman, an overly proper married man certain that he knows best. For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan's collaborations have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,616 members
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  • Little Voice on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Brenda Blethyn,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mark Herman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    'Little Voice' (Jane Horrocks) is a social introvert, unwilling to communicate with the outside world since the death of her father. Her only escape from the drudgery of her existence is through singing classic showtunes in the style of her glamourous heroes. When a sleazy showbiz agent (Michael ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 7,082 members
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  • Percy the Park Keeper - S01 E04 - After ... (1997)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Geoff Dunbar
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    It is a bright Autumn day and all the animals are playing in the fallen leaves which Percy has been trying to sweep up!!! He tries to get them to tidy them up again, but they make even more mess. Eventually, though, they finish, but it begins to rain. Everyone says goodnight and hurries to their ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
  • The Borrowers on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Dick Ward,  George Yiasou,  Hugh Laurie
    Director: Peter Hewitt
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Clock family are 'borrowers' - four inch-high people who live under the floorboards of a big house, borrowing whatever they need from the 'human beans' who own it. However, when evil property developer Ocious P. Potter (John Goodman) decides to get rid of the house, tiny Pod (Jim Broadbent) and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,403 members
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  • Percy the Park Keeper - S01 E03 - The Re... (1997)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Director: Geoff Dunbar
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Percy is having a day off and is busy making sandwiches for a picnic. The rabbits are frolicking in the park and the youngest is being a bit too reckless. She tumbles down the hill and lands on Percy's doorstep. He tells her that he is having a picnic and then warns her to "Look before you leap". ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 1 member
  • The Secret Agent (1996)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Patricia Arquette,  Gerard Depardieu
    Director: Christopher Hampton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 43% from 32 members
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  • Richard III (1995)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sir Ian McKellen takes the title role in this updated version of Shakespeare's play, based on Richard Eyre's acclaimed theatrical production. After a blood-soaked civil war in 1930s London, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays claim to the English throne. The deformed monarch-apparent uses all his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,227 members
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  • The Last Englishman (1995)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Tony Haygarth,  Matthew Ashforde
    Director: John Henderson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 8 members
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  • Rough Magic (1995)
    Starring: Bridget Fonda,  Russell Crowe,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Clare Peploe
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 43 members
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  • Wide-Eyed and Legless (1994)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Thora Hird,  Moya Brady
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 7 members
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  • Princess Caraboo (1994)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Phoebe Cates,  Kevin Kline
    Director: Michael Austin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 43 members
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  • Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
    Starring: Joe Viterelli,  Dianne Wiest,  Tracey Ullman
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twenties. David Shayne (John Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,917 members
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  • Inspector Morse - Deadly Slumber on DVD (1993)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Samantha Bond,  Adrian Dunbar
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dr. Mathew Brewster's suicide takes a particular twist when the pathologist determines that he had also been bound and gagged. The Brewsters, both medical doctors, ran a private clinic and their son John, who lived at home, is doctoral candidate in philosophy. One possible suspect is Michael ..read more »
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  • Inspector Morse - S07 E01 - Deadly Slumber (1993)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Kevin Whately,  Samantha Bond
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The owner of a private clinic has committed suicide then Morse finds he was bound and gagged. One suspect is Michael Steppings who wrote threatening letters after his daughter was left brain-damaged after a botched operation. Then Morse finds one letter was altered which puts a new slant on it all.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 46 members
  • Widow's Peak on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Natasha Richardson,  Jim Broadbent,  Joan Plowright
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In 1920s Widows Peak, a small village in Ireland, the community is thrown into disarray with the arrival of a beautiful young widow. Joan Plowright plays the village matriarch, Mrs Doyle Counihan, who prides herself on knowing all the comings and goings in the community, and everything about ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 230 members
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  • Inspector Morse - Dead on Time on DVD (1992)
    Starring: David Haig,  Richard Pasco,  John Thaw
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Henry Fallon, who is wheelchair bound and is suffering from a neurological disorder, apparently commits suicide and Morse has mixed feelings working on this case as he was once engaged to the dead man's wife, Susan Fallon. The body was found by his son-in-law Peter Rhodes, a local antiques dealer ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,020 member
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  • Inspector Morse - S06 E05 - Cherubim and... (1992)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Kevin Whately,  Samantha Bond
    Director: Danny Boyle
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tragedy strikes when Morse's niece commits suicide. He takes leave to try to find a reason and comes into contact with the alien world of house parties, raves and designer drugs. Lewis is working an the death of a young man and when they're re-teamed they see similarities in the two cases.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 50 members
  • Inspector Morse - S06 E01 - Dead on Time (1992)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Kevin Whately,  Samantha Bond
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Wheelchair-bound and terminally ill Henry Fallon commits suicide but Morse has mixed feelings about working on the case as he was once engaged to Mrs Fallon. When he finds it's murder, the son-in-law becomes a suspect. But Lewis is concerned that Morse's professionalism is compromised.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 60 members
  • The Crying Game on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Stephen Rea,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA volunteer who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 13,557 members
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  • The Crying Game - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Stephen Rea,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA member, is standing guard over a British soldier (Forest Whitaker) who the IRA have taken hostage. Against the orders of his superiors, he engages in conversation with the man, who tells him about his lover Dil (Jaye Davidson), who lives in London. Moved by his captive'..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 51 members
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  • Inspector Morse - S06 E03 - Death of the... (1992)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Kevin Whately,  Samantha Bond
    Director: Colin Gregg
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Morse and Lewis go to Verona, Italy to look into the death of a woman attending a clinic run by a convicted fraudster. While Lewis is homesick, Morse falls under the spell of Nicole, an opera singer, also at the clinic. Then he uncovers a fraud in counterfeit rare manuscripts and Nicole may be involved.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 44 members
  • Murder Most Horrid - Series 1 (1991)
    Starring: Jane Asher,  Jim Broadbent,  Bill Paterson
    Director: Bob Spiers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All six darkly comic tales from series 1 of the popular BBC television show starring Dawn French. Episodes comprise: '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'.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 364 members
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  • Vroom (1990)
    Starring: Clive Owen,  Diana Quick,  David Thewlis
    Director: Beeban Kidron
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two pals, and the older woman who moves in next door, set out from their small-town background to discover their dreams.
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 3 members
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  • Life Is Sweet - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Moya Brady,  Stephen Rea,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mike Leigh's acclaimed social comedy is set in a lower-middle class household in a London suburb. Parents Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) and their twin daughters Natalie (Claire Skinner) and Nicola (Jane Horrocks) are a modern family at odds with itself. Whilst Natalie quietly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 113 members
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  • Life Is Sweet on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Moya Brady,  Stephen Rea,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mike Leigh's situation comedy about a lower middle-class family in the London suburbs is a slice-of-life chronicle that subtly reveals the pain and rage underneath the surface of day-to-day conventions. The youngish parents, Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) live with their 20-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 9,252 members
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  • Blackadder - Special (1988)
    Starring: Rowan Atkinson,  Tony Robinson,  Robbie Coltrane
    Director: Richard Boden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Christmas Eve, 1850. In the reign of good Queen Vic, there stood, in Dumpling Lane in old London town, the Moustache Shoppe of one Ebenezer Blackadder - the kindest and loveliest man in all England. That is until the Spirit of Christmas shows up and introduces him to the ways of his loathsome ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 83% from 213 members
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  • Blackadder's Christmas Carol on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Pauline Melville,  Hugh Laurie,  Tony Robinson
    Director: Richard Boden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Charles Dickens' famous 'Christmas Carol' story told in the celebrated 'Blackadder' style. Ebeneezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is the loveliest, kindest man in all of Christendom, until the Ghost of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) pays him a visit and shows him the wicked ways of his ancestors. Among ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 13,083 members
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  • Acorn Antiques on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Duncan Preston,  Victoria Wood
    Director: Geoffrey Posner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    On the outskirts of Manchesterford, a small antiques shop is a hotbed of scandal and gossip. This spoof soap opera, compete with unrealistic sets and sensationalist dialogue, originally appeared as a series of sketches on Victoria Wood's television show 'As Seen on TV', with absurd storylines that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,203 members
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  • Brazil - Blu-ray (1985)
    Starring: Jonathan Pryce,  Ian Holm,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the future, a clerk at the all-powerful Ministry of Information sticks to his ideals and ends up crushed by the system in this half comedy, half horror story from former 'Monty Python' animator Terry Gilliam. Like Orwell's novel '1984', which it echoes, the future is seen from a 1940's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 75 members
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  • Brazil on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Jonathan Pryce,  Ian Holm,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the future, a clerk at the all-powerful Ministry of Information sticks to his ideals and ends up crushed by the system in this half comedy, half horror story from former 'Monty Python' animator Terry Gilliam. Like Orwell's novel '1984', which it echoes, the future is seen from a 1940's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 20,652 members
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  • Loving Walter (1982)
    Starring: Ian McKellen,  Sarah Miles,  Sarah Miles
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 11 members
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  • Time Bandits - Blu-ray (1980)
    Starring: Kenny Baker,  Ralph Richardson,  Derrick O'Connor
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Schoolboy Kevin is rescued from his dull suburban life when a gang of dwarves emerge from his wardrobe and carry him off through space and time. Their travels bring them into contact with some leading historical figures; John Cleese is Robin Hood and Sean Connery is Agamemnon in this bizarre comedy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 866 members
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  • Time Bandits on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Kenny Baker,  Ralph Richardson,  Derrick O'Connor
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 12,809 members
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  • Percy The Park Keeper - The Classic Coll... on DVD
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Percy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Ten adventures with everyone's favourite park keeper, as voiced by Jim Broadbent. In 'Sledge Ride', Percy and his chums build sledges and have fun in the snow. 'The Rabbit Who Was Afraid of the Dark' sees Percy advising a rabbit who is afraid of the dark to eat more carrots. In 'One Warm Fox', a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 382 members
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  • Tales Of The Riverbank
    Starring: Steve Coogan,  Miranda Hart,  Peter Serafinowicz
    Director: John Henderson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director John Henderson's animated big-screen updating of the classic children's TV series. Produced by the team responsible for 'Spitting Image', the story follows the adventures of three rodent friends, Hammy Hamster (voice of Ardal O'Hanlon), Roderick Rat (voice of Steve Coogan) and GP the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 656 members
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  • Percy The Park Keeper - The Secret Path on DVD
    Starring: Jim Broadbent
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 23 members
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Jim Broadbent facts

5 most recent films

Le Weekend - 3 stars
Cloud Atlas - 3.5 stars
Cloud Atlas - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Iron Lady - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Arthur Christmas - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Brazil - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Only Fools And Horses - To Hull And Back - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Damned United - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Damned United - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Le Weekend - 3 stars
Vroom - 1.5 stars
The Secret Agent - 2.5 stars
Tales Out Of School - Four Plays by David Leland - 2.5 stars
Princess Caraboo - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Timothy Spall - 41 times - show films
Jane Horrocks - 37 times - show films
Sue Johnston - 33 times - show films
Shaun Dooley - 32 times - show films
Lindsey Coulson - 30 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Blair - 18 times - show films
Jimmy McGovern - 15 times - show films
Terry McDonough - 10 times - show films
Geoff Dunbar - 8 times - show films
Roger McIntosh - 8 times - show films