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Sarah Polley
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Filmography
Sarah Polley - what members say
review by McClennan from St Helens
Lovely film making with more than a little bit of imagination 22 August 2005
review by from London
Manipulative and false 24 November 2004
review by A customer from newcastle
excellent 14 April 2005
Sarah Polley - filmography
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Take This Waltz
(2011)
Starring: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby
Director: Sarah Polley
Certificate: 
When Margot, 28, meets Daniel, their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction: she is happily married to Lou, a celebrated cookbook writer.
When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She ..read more »
 
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from 1 member
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Splice - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Certificate: 
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Superstar genetic engineers Clive and Elsa specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible hybrids. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But, when the company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly ..read more »
55%
from 6,349 members
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Mr. Nobody
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Rhys Ifans
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Certificate:
In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 117-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances involving the perpetual rejuvenation of telomeres. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences ..read more »
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from 1,734 member
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Splice
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Certificate:
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Superstar genetic engineers Clive and Elsa specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible hybrids. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But, when the company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly ..read more »
56%
from 20,397 members
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Mr. Nobody - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Rhys Ifans
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Certificate:
In the year 2092, a time when Mars is a vacation spot, Nemo Nobody is a 117-year-old man who is the last mortal among humans who have become immortal due to scientific advances involving the perpetual rejuvenation of telomeres. When Nemo is on his deathbed, he reviews the three possible existences ..read more »
58%
from 601 members
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John Adams
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: David Morse, Justin Theroux, Paul Giamatti
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate: 
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 »
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from 1,974 member
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Away from Her
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent
Director: Sarah Polley
Certificate:
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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.
66%
from 8,075 members
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Don't Come Knocking
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann
Director: Wim Wenders
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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 »
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from 1,342 member
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The Secret Life of Words
(2005)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Camara
Director: Isabel Coixet
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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.
73%
from 40 members
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Sugar
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Brendan Fehr, Andre Noble, Maury Chaykin
Director: John Palmer
Certificate: 
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.
50%
from 1,095 member
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Dawn Of The Dead
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
Director: Zack Snyder
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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...
64%
from 28,375 members
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My Life Without Me
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry
Director: Isabel Coixet
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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 »
62%
from 5,997 members
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The Event
(2003)
Starring: Parker Posey, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
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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.
49%
from 23 members
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No Such Thing
(2001)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren
Director: Hal Hartley
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Disgusted with human evolution, a foul mouthed monster (Robert John Burke) kills anyone who crosses his path. When a news crew sent to investigate the monster disappears, a guileless young woman (Sarah Polley) is dispatched to follow up on the story. She befriends the monster and becomes his only ..read more »
75%
from 4 members
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The Claim
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Shirley Henderson
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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In transporting Thomas Hardy's THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE to the American West, English director Michael Winterbottom has fashioned an audacious, epic anti-Western that is a haunting achievement. Set in 1849, the story concerns Mr. Dillon (Peter Mullan), the ruler of Kingdom Come, a snow-covered ..read more »
56%
from 915 members
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The Weight of the Water
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Two stories unravel simultaneously in this dark and suspenseful film. The first story, set in the present day, concerns a photographer, Jean (Catherine McCormack). She is working on an article for a magazine about a pair of bloody murders that happened 200 years before on the Isle of Shoals, just ..read more »
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from 1,255 member
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Go
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr
Director: Doug Liman
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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.
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from 6,798 members
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Go - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr
Director: Doug Liman
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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.
67%
from 801 members
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Existenz
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Kristopher Lemche
Director: David Cronenberg
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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 »
59%
from 12,532 members
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White Lies
(1998)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Tanya Allen, Jonathan Scarfe
Director: Kari Skogland
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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.
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from 8 members
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Last Night
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell
Director: Don McKellar
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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 »
63%
from 654 members
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The Sweet Hereafter
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, David Hemblen
Director: Atom Egoyan
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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 »
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from 2,353 members
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Road To Avonlea - Vol. 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman
Certificate: 
This sparkling episodic series intertwines many unforgettable L.M. Montgomery characters - from the original cast of the "Anne of Green Gables" mini series. Antics and misadventures lead Sara Stanley through tales of romance fancy, tragedy and comedy...
64%
from 247 members
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Blu-ray
(1988)
Starring: John Neville, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Idle
Director: Terry Gilliam
Certificate: 
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In TIME BANDITS, director Terry Gilliam told a fantastical story filled with heroes and villains seen through the eyes of a small boy. In BRAZIL, Gilliam focused on a fantasy world created by a young man trapped in a totalitarian state. With THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Gilliam tells the ..read more »
67%
from 776 members
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: John Neville, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Idle
Director: Terry Gilliam
Certificate:
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In TIME BANDITS, director Terry Gilliam told a fantastical story filled with heroes and villains seen through the eyes of a small boy. In BRAZIL, Gilliam focused on a fantasy world created by a young man trapped in a totalitarian state. With THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Gilliam tells the ..read more »
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from 6,329 members
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