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  • The Sweet Hereafter
  • The Sweet Hereafter review by McClennan from St Helens
    Rated - 4 stars Lovely film making with more than a little bit of imagination 22 August 2005
    ...hink they would making the lawyer character feel incredibly intrusive. I'd seen Sarah Polley in a couple of films before and wondered where she'd made her name and she take...  
  • My Life Without Me
  • My Life Without Me review by from EDINBURGH
    Rated - 4 stars 13 September 2004
    ...which I liked. Great writing and a wonderful collection of actors and cameos. Sarah Polley is good as are Scott Speedman, the wonderful Mark Ruffalo, Debbie Harry, and a ...  
  • Dawn Of The Dead
  • Dawn Of The Dead review by A customer from newcastle
    Rated - 5 stars excellent 14 April 2005
    ...ly limbless zombies) once he actually starts speaking, and it is welcoming that Sarah Polley's Ana is as composed as she is subtle which is great for the audience because f...  

Sarah Polley - filmography


  • John Adams (3 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: David Morse,  Justin Theroux,  Paul Giamatti
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Starring Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man, HBO's American Splendor) in the title role and Laura Linney (You Can Count On Me, Kinsey) as Adams' devoted wife Abigail, John Adams chronicles the extraordinary life journey of one of the primary shapers of America's independence and government, ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,272 member
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  • Away From Her on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Julie Christie,  Michael Murphy,  Gordon Pinsent
    Director: Sarah Polley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,605 members
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  • The Secret Life of Words (2005)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Tim Robbins,  Javier Camara
    Director: Isabel Coixet
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns. During the course of her stay she is challenged to conront herself and her life in a way she never expected.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 25 members
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  • Don't Come Knocking on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sam Shepherd,  Jessica Lange,  Tim Roth
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,216 member
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  • Dawn Of The Dead on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Ving Rhames,  Jake Weber
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A female nurse, Anna, and a black police officer, Kenneth, are caught in the middle of world-wide chaos as flesh-eating zombies begin to take over the world by attacking the living...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 25,985 members
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  • My Life Without Me on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Scott Speedman,  Deborah Harry
    Director: Isabel Coixet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ann is 23-years-old, she has 2 young daughters, a husband who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother who hates the world, a father who has spent the last ten years in jail, and a job as a night janitor in a university that she could never attend in the daytime. They all live in a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,433 members
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  • The Event (2003)
    Starring: Parker Posey,  Sarah Polley,  Don McKellar
    Director: Thom Fitzgerald
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 17 members
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  • Existenz on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Jude Law,  Willem Dafoe
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in the near-future, eXistenZ depicts a society in which game designers are worshipped as superstars and players can organically enter inside the games. At the center of the story is Allegra Geller whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 10,101 members
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  • Go on DVD (1999)
    Starring: William Fichtner,  Katie Holmes,  Jay Mohr
    Director: Doug Liman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    SWINGERS director Doug Liman assembles a hip cast in this follow-up to his hit debut. A group of young Californians do drugs, deal drugs, go to raves, have carnal adventures and get in many kinds of trouble over the course of one action-packed night.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,598 members
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  • White Lies (1998)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Tanya Allen,  Jonathan Scarfe
    Director: Kari Skogland
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic leaders of the neo-nazi organization NIM.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 8 members
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  • Last Night (1998)
    Starring: Don McKellar,  Sandra Oh,  Roberta Maxwell
    Director: Don McKellar
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    At the turn of the century, the end of the world is known to be coming to an end. This modest comedy-drama examines how the impending doom affects its cast. McKellar plays an architect who plans to meet the end alone at dinner. Others make a suicide pact, but are caught apart and struggle to get ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 55 members
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  • The Sweet Hereafter on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Ian Holm,  Sarah Polley,  Maury Chaykin
    Director: Atom Egoyan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A small Canadian town is torn apart by the appearance of an ambulance-chasing lawyer after a tragic accident involving a school bus killed many of the town's children. One key witness, however, eludes the troubled attorney: a gifted young woman confined by the tragedy to a wheelchair for the rest ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,876 member
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  • Sugar on DVD
    Starring: Brendan Fehr,  Andre Noble,  Maury Chaykin
    Director: John Palmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Just turned eighteen, Cliff decides that he needs to break away from the safety of homelife and embark upon an adventure. When he meets Butch, it seems as though his life will change forever. Based on the short stories of Bruce La Bruce.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 893 members
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  • Splice
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Sarah Polley,  David Hewlett
    Director: Vincenzo Natali
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Clive and Elsa are a pair of brilliant scientists whose cutting-edge experiments in genetic engineering make them superstars in their field. As devoted to their careers as they are to one another, they start conducting unauthorized experiments with new animal species that show great promise. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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Sarah Polley - watch online


  • Away From Her to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Gordon Pinsent,  Stacey LaBerge,  Julie Christie
    Director: Sarah Polley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 105 minutes
    Based on a short story by acclaimed author Alice Munroe, ?Away From Her' is the dazzling, lyrical and intensely moving debut of award-winning actress, writer and director Sarah Polley. Married for 50 years, Fiona (Julie Christie) and Grant's (Gordon Pinsent) commitment to each other appears ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 6 members
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Sarah Polley facts

5 most recent films

John Adams - 4.0 stars
Away From Her - 3.5 stars
The Secret Life of Words - 3.5 stars
Don't Come Knocking - 2.5 stars
Dawn Of The Dead - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

John Adams - 4.0 stars
Last Night - 4.0 stars
Go - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Away From Her - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Splice - 3 stars
White Lies - 2.5 stars
Guinevere - 2.5 stars
The Event - 2.5 stars
The Secret Life of Words - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Don McKellar - 3 times - show films
Olympia Dukakis - 3 times - show films
Stacey LaBerge - 2 times - show films
Sting - 2 times - show films
Arsinee Khanjian - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Doug Liman - 2 times - show films
Terry Gilliam - 2 times - show films
Atom Egoyan - 2 times - show films
Isabel Coixet - 2 times - show films
Michael Winterbottom - 1 times - show films