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Penelope Wilton
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Margot
(2009)
Starring: Penelope Wilton, Anne-Marie Duff, Lindsay Duncan
Director: Otto Bathurst
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Margot examines the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain’s first international ballet superstar. At the age of 40, Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff – The Virgin Queen; Shameless) was seemingly at her creative peak and under mounting pressure to retire gracefully. Her unexpected ..read more »
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33%
from 6 members
Due for release on 7th December 2009
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The Passion
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: James Nesbitt, Joseph Mawle, Paul Nicholls
Director: Michael Offer
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Temple priests prepare themselves for the influx of pilgrims to Jerusalem for Passover, as does Roman governor Pontius Pilate (James Nesbitt, BLOODY SUNDAY). Meanwhile, Jesus the Galilean (Joseph Mawle, SILENT WITNESS), is about to enter Jerusalem through the East Gate on a donkey's colt. BBC mini-..read more »
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71%
from 48 members
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The History Boys
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Samuel Anderson, Jack Bagley, Samuel Barnett
Director: Nicholas Hytner
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"The History Boys" tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), ..read more »
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64%
from 35,839 members
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Match Point
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer
Director: Woody Allen
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For the first time in his long career, writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London, and the European location breathes new life into the normally Manhattan-centric auteur. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a former pro on the world tennis circuit, with eyes set on a very ..read more »
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55%
from 28,202 members
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Shaun of the Dead - HD DVD Version
(2004)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
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Pub regular Shaun certainly needs a drink. He's fallen out with his Mum and his girlfriend's dumped him. Determined to get his sad life back on track, he decides to pull himself together only to be confronted with an unexpected obstacle, an unrelenting swarm of suburban living corpses. Who'd've ..read more »
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79%
from 840 members
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Shaun Of The Dead
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
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Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ..read more »
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71%
from 88,094 members
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Shaun Of The Dead - BLU-RAY Version
(2004)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
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Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ..read more »
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82%
from 414 members
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Calendar Girls
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, Linda Bassett
Director: Nigel Cole
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Based on a true story, Nigel Cole's CALENDAR GIRLS has a mix of comedy and heart-tugging emotion that compares with the comedies FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and THE FULL MONTY. Annie (Julie Walters) and Chris (Helen Mirren), of bucolic Yorkshire, belong to the Women's Institute (WI), which ..read more »
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69%
from 31,078 members
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Iris
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Richard Eyre
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Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height ..read more »
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68%
from 9,342 members
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Wives And Daughters
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael, Michael Gambon
Director: Nicholas Renton
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The BBC presents Elizabeth Gaskell's timeless tale of romance in 19th-century England. WIVES AND DAUGHTERS is the humorous and often heart-wrenching story of two single women, one sweet and one sexy, searching for love and finding nothing but trouble when the man destined for one falls for her ..read more »
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75%
from 3,499 members
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Carrington
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Rufus Sewell
Director: Christopher Hampton
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Emma Thompson stars as young, boyish and vivacious painter Dora Carrington, with Jonathan Pryce as writer and conscientious objector Lytton Strachey, the unobtainably gay man, that she loves passionately. Directed by Christopher Hampton (DANGEROUS LIAISONS) this unorthodox love-story is based on ..read more »
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64%
from 1,047 member
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Borrowers, The - Series 1
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard
Director: John Henderson
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The first series of the splendid BBC adaptation of Mary Norton's novel. This wonderfully believable adaptation stars Ian Holm as Pod and Penelope Wilton as his wife Homily. They are 6 inches high humans, who live like mice in the nooks and crannies of a house with their equally tiny daughter ..read more »
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67%
from 897 members
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Cry Freedom
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton
Director: Richard Attenborough
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This is the retelling of the life of South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko as seen through the eyes of his friend, liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Supporting Actor--Denzel Washington.
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75%
from 3,338 members
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Clockwise
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman
Director: Christopher Morahan
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John Cleese stars in this delightful comedy as Brian Stimpson, the headmaster of a British high school whose obsession with punctuality is a source of humour for his students and joy for himself. The timely Stimpson has been elected the chairman of a conference of headmasters from posh schools--a ..read more »
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64%
from 2,528 members
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The Norman Conquests
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Tom Conti, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith
Director: Alan Ayckbourn, Herbert Wise
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A trilogy of comedic plays originally broadcast in the late 1970s. The three plays follow the events that happen to a groups of friends over the course of a weekend. Includes: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS: Living Together, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS: Round & Round The Garden, and THE NORMAN CONQUESTS: Table Manners.
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62%
from 356 members
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Jackanory - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
on DVD
Starring: Penelope Wilton
Director: Margie Barbour
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This episode of the long-running JACKANORY series features Penelope Wilton reading Lewis Carroll's beloved classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND. When young Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole, a most unusual adventure begins.
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49%
from 48 members
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Borrowers, The - Series 2
on DVD
Starring: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton
Director: John Henderson
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The second series of the television series which follows The Borrowers, a family of tiny people who live under the stairs in an old house populated by the larger version of the human being. One day a tiny member of the family befriends a member of the 'bigger' household... Based on the novel by ..read more »
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69%
from 560 members
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The Monocled Mutineer
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Paul McGann, Cherie Lunghi, Jerome Flynn
Director: Jim O'Brien
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Based on the novel by William Allison and John Fairley, this drama tells the story of a World War One mutiny which took place at the Etaples Training Camp in northern France in 1917 on the eve of the Passchendaele battle.
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74%
from 415 members
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Falling
on DVD
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Penelope Wilton, Sylvestra Le Touzel
Director: Tristram Powell
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Five women in their early 30s meet for the first time in 14 years when they return to their small hometown to attend the funeral of their favorite teacher.The reunion unexpectedly continues through the night and the following day, taking them on a journey to the past, present and future, in which ..read more »
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64%
from 84 members
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Customer Review 23 June 2008
...the cast, including Ian Holm (simply great as the sensitive and secretive Pod), Penelope Wilton (the house proud Homily), Sian Philips (the sinister and strict 'human' Mrs Dri...
