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  • Return to Me
  • Return to Me review by from Hants
    Rated - 2.0 stars Minnie Driver - not her best choice of film role 1 May 2005
    ... your attention either - Duchovny not on song and who thought Minnie Driver and Joely Richardson should have fake mid Altantic accents? ...   Read customer review
  • The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
  • The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey review by A customer from Worthing
    Rated - 3.0 stars Sentimental Christmastide film 22 March 2009
    ... story and unabashed tearjerker so keep a box of tissues handy for the family. Joely Richardson very good as the stiff upper lip mother and Luke Ward-Wilkinson excellent as th...   Read customer review

Joely Richardson - filmography


  • Anonymous - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Xavier Samuel,  Rhys Ifans,  Jamie Campbell Bower
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Roland Emmerich explores the mystery surrounding William Shakespeare in this period drama set in Elizabethan England, when tightly-guarded political secrets were often exposed on the stages of London's most prominent theatres. For centuries, historians have searched for clues as to who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 759 members
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  • Anonymous on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Xavier Samuel,  Rhys Ifans,  Jamie Campbell Bower
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,924 member
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  • Day Of The Triffids on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Dougray Scott,  Joely Richardson,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Nick Copus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A modern day adaptation of John Wyndham's best-selling iconic novel, which brings his terrifying creation of carnivorous plant species to life in a CGI extravaganza, supported by a sensational all-star cast that includes Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Redgrave and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,852 member
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  • Freezing (2007)
    Starring: Richard E. Grant,  Tom Hollander,  Tom Riley
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Television comedy starring Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and Richard E. Grant. Elisabeth (McGovern) is an American Oscar-nominated actress who was discovered by Robert Redford. She's acted in numerous successful films with stars like Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Robert de Niro. That was then. Now ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 20 members
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  • The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Saoirse Ronan,  Joely Richardson
    Director: Bill Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 388 members
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  • The Last Mimzy on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Timothy Hutton,  Chris O'Neil,  Chris O'Neill
    Director: Robert Shaye
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange and sometimes terrifying world.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 16,351 members
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  • Nip/Tuck - Season 3 (6 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Dylan Walsh,  Joely Richardson,  Julian McMahon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    He - or is it she? - slices, they stitch. He maims, they heal. Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara and Christian Troy have vowed to make whole the victims of the elusive, mysterious serial slasher called the Carver. But mending the rifts in their own families and careers will require much more than ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 4,060 members
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  • Wallis And Edward on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Joely Richardson,  Stephen Campbell Moore
    Director: Dave Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and Edward is the first time that the events have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 326 members
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  • Nip/Tuck - Season 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Dylan Walsh,  Joely Richardson,  Julian McMahon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This series is set in the flashy world of South Beach, Miami, where looking good is a full-time profession. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) are plastic surgeons. Sean is married to Julia (Joely Richardson) and has a conscience when it comes to his job, while ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 5,942 members
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  • The Affair Of The Necklace (2001)
    Starring: Hilary Swank,  Jonathan Pryce,  Simon Baker
    Director: Charles Shyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This tale of intrigue and corruption is based on a true account of 18th Century French noblewoman Jeanne de la Motte-Valois (played by Oscar-winner Hilary Swank), whose family has been dispossessed of status and title by the king. To restore honor to her name, not to mention reclaim her family ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 824 members
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  • Return to Me on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Robert Loggia,  David Alan Grier,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Bonnie Hunt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Return To Me is an endearing romantic comedy infused with real life humor. Life can change in an instant and it does for Bob Rueland and Grace Briggs. A lonely Bob is embraced by Grace, who is surrounded by a coterie of substitute mothers including her Irish grandfather, who with his Italian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,783 members
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  • Maybe Baby on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Hugh Laurie,  Dawn French,  Joely Richardson
    Director: Ben Elton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Novelist-playwright-comedian-screenwriter-television writer Ben Elton (THE YOUNG ONES, BLACKADDER) tries his busy hand at directing with MAYBE BABY, a short, sweet romantic comedy about a couple very much in love but having difficulty conceiving a child. Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,186 members
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  • The Patriot - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Joely Richardson,  Heath Ledger
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mel Gibson stars in this action-packed historical drama from the director of INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA. Gibson portrays Benjamin Martin, an unassuming man who is forced to join the American Revolution when the British threaten to take his farm away from him. Together with his patriotic son, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,673 member
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  • The Patriot on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Joely Richardson,  Heath Ledger
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Benjamin Martin is a reluctant hero who is swept into the American Revolution when the war reaches his home and threatens his family. A hero of the fierce French and Indian conflict, Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. But when the British arrive at his South ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 11,287 members
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  • The Tribe (1998)
    Starring: Joely Richardson,  Jeremy Northam,  Anna Friel
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 32 members
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  • Event Horizon on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kathleen Quinlan,  Joely Richardson,  Barclay Wright
    Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,047 members
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  • 101 Dalmatians on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Jeff Daniels,  Joely Richardson
    Director: Stephen Herek
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Slapstick kingpin John Hughes translates the classic animated children's tale into a campy live-action slugfest. The fur-loving, sadistic Cruella De Vil (Close, at her most outrageous) pants after the pelts of the titular puppies, hoping to sew them into a fabulous coat, but the dogs outsmart her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,832 members
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  • Lady Chatterley (2 discs) on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Joely Richardson,  Shirley Ann Field
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, LADY CHATTERLEY is drawn from the author's unexpurgated novel, as well as the two previously published drafts of the story, 'The First Lady Chatterley' and 'John Thomas and Lady Jane'. In recounting the familiar details of young, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,270 member
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  • Shining Through on DVD (1992)
    Starring: John Gielgud,  Michael Douglas,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: David Seltzer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1940, a half-Irish, half-Jewish woman from Queens (Melanie Griffith) takes a posh secretarial job for an attorney who turns out to be a US government spy (Michael Douglas). Despite her lower-class status, the two become lovers, and the lawyer reluctantly allows her to go to Berlin to spy on a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 477 members
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  • Drowning by Numbers (1988)
    Starring: Bernard Hill,  Joan Plowright,  Joely Richardson
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When you don't like your husband very much, murder may seem a drastic solution. Unless of course you decide to drown him and you are a close personal friend of a compliant coroner... So far, so good. But, what happens when other members of your family decide to follow your example? 'Drowning By ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 175 members
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  • The Hotel New Hampshire on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Beau Bridges,  Nastassja Kinski
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 991 members
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Joely Richardson facts

5 most recent films

Red Lights - 2.0 stars
Anonymous - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Anonymous - 3.0 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Nip/Tuck - Season 5 - 4.0 stars
Nip/Tuck - Season 4 - 4.0 stars
Nip/Tuck - Season 6 - 4.0 stars
Nip/Tuck - Season 3 - 4.0 stars
Drowning by Numbers - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Red Lights - 2.0 stars
The Tribe - 3.0 stars
The Fever - 3.0 stars
Freezing - 3.5 stars
Fatal Contact - Bird Flu In America - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dylan Walsh - 40 times - show films
Julian McMahon - 40 times - show films
Roma Maffia - 21 times - show films
John Hensley - 21 times - show films
Vanessa Redgrave - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 19 times - show films
Sean Jablonski - 9 times - show films
Richard Levine - 9 times - show films
Charles Haid - 9 times - show films
John Scott - 6 times - show films