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  • The Sweet Hereafter
  • The Sweet Hereafter review by McClennan from St Helens
    Rated - 4.0 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...   Read customer review
  • My Life Without Me
  • My Life Without Me review by from London
    Rated - 1.0 stars Manipulative and false 24 November 2004
    ...Ann(Sarah Polley) is a young mother living by modest means with her loving husband(Scott Speedman) and their two young daughters. Ann's happiness is shattered by the news t...   Read customer review
  • Dawn Of The Dead
  • Dawn Of The Dead review by A customer from newcastle
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review

Sarah Polley - filmography


  • Take This Waltz (2011)
    Starring: Michelle Williams,  Seth Rogen,  Luke Kirby
    Director: Sarah Polley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 1 member
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  • Splice - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Sarah Polley,  David Hewlett
    Director: Vincenzo Natali
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,734 member
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  • Splice on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Sarah Polley,  David Hewlett
    Director: Vincenzo Natali
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: 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 »
    4 stars out of 5 77% 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: 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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,342 member
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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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 40 members
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  • Sugar on DVD (2004)
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 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
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 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
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,997 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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 23 members
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  • No Such Thing (2001)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Robert John Burke,  Helen Mirren
    Director: Hal Hartley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4 members
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  • The Claim on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Wes Bentley,  Nastassja Kinski,  Shirley Henderson
    Director: Michael Winterbottom
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,255 member
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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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,798 members
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  • Go - Blu-ray (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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 801 members
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  • Existenz on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Callum Keith Rennie,  Sarah Polley,  Kristopher Lemche
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 12,532 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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 8 members
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  • Last Night on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Don McKellar,  Sandra Oh,  Roberta Maxwell
    Director: Don McKellar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 654 members
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  • The Sweet Hereafter on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Peter Donaldson,  Bruce Greenwood,  David Hemblen
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% 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: Certificate: U
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 247 members
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  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on DVD (1988)
    Starring: John Neville,  Jonathan Pryce,  Eric Idle
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,329 members
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Sarah Polley facts

5 most recent films

Take This Waltz - 4.5 stars
Splice - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Mr. Nobody - 3.0 stars
Splice - 3.0 stars
Mr. Nobody - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

John Adams - 4.0 stars
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Go - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Away from Her - 3.5 stars
Go - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

White Lies - 2.5 stars
Guinevere - 2.5 stars
The Event - 2.5 stars
The Secret Life of Words - 3.5 stars
No Such Thing - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gema Zamprogna - 5 times - show films
Mag Ruffman - 5 times - show films
Cedric Smith - 5 times - show films
Lally Cadeau - 5 times - show films
Zachary Bennett - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 5 times - show films
Vincenzo Natali - 3 times - show films
Terry Gilliam - 3 times - show films
Tom Hooper - 3 times - show films
Doug Liman - 2 times - show films