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Sarah Polley - filmography
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Away From Her
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent
Director: Sarah Polley
Certificate: 
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.
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65%
from 5,015 members
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Don't Come Knocking
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Sam Shepherd, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth
Director: Wim Wenders
Certificate: 
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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59%
from 319 members
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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.
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75%
from 17 members
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Dawn Of The Dead
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
Director: Zack Snyder
Certificate: 
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...
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70%
from 3,676 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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Sarah Polley delivers a heartbreakingly subtle performance in Isabel Coixet's MY LIFE WITHOUT ME. Polley is Ann, a young mother and wife who works as a university janitor and lives in a trailer in her mother's backyard. The relationship between Ann and her mother (Deborah Harry) is on shaky ground, ..read more »
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67%
from 830 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.
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50%
from 16 members
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The Claim
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley
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 »
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59%
from 150 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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50%
from 199 members
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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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66%
from 1,511 members
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Existenz
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe
Director: David Cronenberg
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A renowned international virtual reality game designer (Leigh), creator of a new interactive game called eXistenZ, becomes the target of an assassination plot by a group of religious fanatics. She is forced to go into hiding with a novice security guard (Law) sworn to protect her. However, during ..read more »
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62%
from 2,874 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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47%
from 8 members
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Last Night
(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 »
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74%
from 51 members
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The Sweet Hereafter
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin
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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68%
from 466 members
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The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
on DVD (1988)
Starring: John Neville, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Idle
Director: Terry Gilliam
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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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66%
from 1,804 members
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Sugar
on DVD
Starring: Brendan Fehr, Andre Noble, Maury Chaykin
Director: John Palmer
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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.
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50%
from 255 members
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Road To Avonlea - Vol. 1
(4 discs)
on DVD
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...
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62%
from 189 members
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Exotica
Starring: Mia Kirshner, Bruce Greenwood, Arsinee Khanjian
Director: Atom Egoyan
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
In a world of temptation, obsession is the deadliest desire.
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from 193 members
Sarah Polley - downloads
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Away From Her
for Download (2007)
Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Kristen Thomson
Director: Sarah Polley
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Run time: 110 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 »
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75%
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Existenz
for Download
Starring: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kristopher Lemche
Director: David Cronenberg
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Run time: 93 minutes
A game which is downloaded into a players spine promises the experience of a lifetime. During its launch celebrations a group of fanatics bursts in.Their mission is to destroy the game at all costs....
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58%
from 233 members
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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...
Manipulative and false 24 November 2004
excellent 14 April 2005
