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Olympia Dukakis
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In The Land Of Women
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan
Director: Jon Kasdan
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IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a surprisingly sombre yet funny coming-of-age tale from director Jon Kasdan, and stars Adam Brody in a role not too different from his beloved Seth Cohen on the night-time teen soap THE O.C. Brody, playing a character his own age, breezily inhabits Carter, a loveable but ..read more »
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Away From Her
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent
Director: Sarah Polley
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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.
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3 Needles
(2005)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Stockard Channing
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
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In China, Jin Ping sets up a mobile blood collection service and inadvertently starts an epidemic that even she will have to overcome. In South Africa, Clara, a novice nun sets out to help the children despite local superstitions and the church itself. In Canada, Denny, a second rate porn actor ..read more »
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The Thing About My Folks
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Paul Reiser, Elizabeth Perkins, Peter Falk
Director: Raymond DeFelitta
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Paul Reiser wrote and stars in THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS, although he graciously handed over the lead role to veteran screen star Peter Falk. Directed by Raymond De Felitta (CAFE SOCIETY), the film is ostensibly a road movie that allows Reiser to dig beneath the surface of a unique father-son ..read more »
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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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from 17 members
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Further Tales of the City
(2002)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins, Laura Linney
Director: Pierre Gang
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Based on the novel by Armistead Maupin, TALES OF THE CITY chronicled the lives of six apartment dwellers in a complex owned by an eccentric during the 1970s. This second sequel (following MORE TALES OF THE CITY) to the original finds the 1970s over and the 1980s just beginning. Set in 1981, FURTHER ..read more »
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Last Of The Blonde Bombshells
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Elizabeth, the youngest of The Blonde Bombshells, recalls her days during the Second World War when the group entertained the nation. When she meets up with Patrick, the only male member of the group, she has the idea on reforming the band to play together again for one last time.
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Joan Of Arc
(1999)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe
Director: Christian Duguay
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A star-studded epic drama based on the tragic true story of Joan Of Arc - the fifteenth-century French peasant girl who's life was changed dramatically when she started hearing the voices of Saints Catherine, Michael and Margaret. Inspired by these voices Joan led her troops to unite against their ..read more »
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A Life For A Life
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Simon Shepherd, Tony Pritchard
Director: Stephen Whittaker
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On the 12th November 2007 Ronald Castree was jailed for the murder of 11 year old Leslie Molseed in 1976. A Life For A Life is based on events surrounding the trial and conviction of Stefan Kiszko falsely accused of the murder. Kiszko is a compelling story of human tragedy. Stefan Kiszko was an ..read more »
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Pentagon Wars
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Olympia Dukakis
Director: Richard Benjamin
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The military-industrial complex gets a scathing send-up in this HBO-produced political satire, which finds Army brass pouring money and effort into the construction of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a top-secret white elephant whose high-tech design negates its usefulness.
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from 96 members
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Better Living
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider, Edward Herrmann
Director: Max Mayer
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Nora (Olympia Dukakis) and her three grown daughters, living in the suburbs of New York City, are stunned when Tom (Roy Scheider), Nora's husband and the father of the girls, comes back after 15 years and reunites their family. However, he has changed. Now, he insists that the family build a ..read more »
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Picture Perfect
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Jay Mohr
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
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Jennifer Aniston plays a plucky, perky, Prada-clad junior ad executive who pulls out all the stops hoping to snag a coveted account, but what her superiors really want is a mature, settled employee. What's a girl to do but increase her credibility by inventing a fiance from out of town, based on a ..read more »
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Mighty Aphrodite
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom
Director: Woody Allen
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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ..read more »
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Jeffrey
(1995)
Starring: Steven Weber, Patrick Stewart, Michael T. Weiss
Director: Christopher Ashley
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In this surprising, buoyant comedy, a young, gay actor/waiter finds "Mr. Right" after becoming celibate in the age of AIDS. Struggling with the notion of commitment after discovering his perfect man is HIV-positive, he relies on his best friend (Patrick Stewart as an interior decorator), a self-..read more »
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Mr Holland's Opus
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas
Director: Stephen Herek
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The year is 1965, and Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss), a composer convinced he is destined to write an historic opus, takes a job as a music teacher to pay the bills. Unbeknownst to him, it is the next 30 years, spent as an instructor, that will define his life. His passionate teaching motivates ..read more »
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Look Who's Talking
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis
Director: Amy Heckerling
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A single mother in her mid-30s sets out to find a proper father for her son. Baby Mikey has his own views on the matter and needs to make them known through his actions - he favours an engaging cab driver turned babysitter. But by the time he can talk it may be too late.
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Steel Magnolias
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton
Director: Herbert Ross
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Based on a true incident of screenwriter Harling's mother and sister. The story is set in a small-town beauty shop near New Orleans, and spans several years in the lives of the shop's owner and her customers.
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Death Wish
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia
Director: Michael Winner
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Charles Bronson stars in a genre-defining vigilante thriller that made him a household name. A fatal sexual assault on his wife and daughter leads mild-mannered architect Paul Kersey (Bronson) to rethink the justice system in his own terms when he discovers the police to be ineffectual, ..read more »
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Day On Fire
on DVD
Starring: Martin Donovan, Olympia Dukakis, Carmen Chaplin
Director: Jay Anania
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Day on Fire is a haunting portrayal of violence. In New York, four women go about their lives, oblivious to the menace that is coming their way. Their paths intersect against the backdrop of a ghastly suicide bombing in Israel, and the strange foreboding wanderings of a mysterious man cruising the ..read more »
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Tales Of The City
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Donald Moffat, Chloe Webb
Director: Alastair Reid
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Adaptation of the books of Armistead Maupin, which follow the lives of a diverse group of individuals from San Francisco, who are all searching for love. Meet Anna Madrigal, the bizarre landlady, Mona Ramsey, who is unaware that she is Anna's daughter, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, the gay Floridian ..read more »
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More Tales Of The City
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Paul Hopkins
Director: Pierre Gang
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More Tales Of The City--the TV miniseries sequel to "Tales of the City"--is an adaptation of the books by Armistead Maupin. Like its precursor, it follows the lives of a diverse group of individuals from San Francisco, each of whom are searching for love. Meet Anna Madrigal, the bizarre landlady, ..read more »
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Away From Her
to Watch Now
(2006)
Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge, Julie Christie
Director: Sarah Polley
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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 »
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Joan of Arc - Part 1
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(1999)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe
Director: Christian Duguay
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Run time: 92 minutes
Once there lived a legend whose coming had been foretold by the great prophet Merlin. It was said that after nearly a century of war, a maiden would unite her divided people. It did not say how...
This star-studded epic mini-series tells the triumphant yet tragic true story of one of history's ..read more »
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Joan of Arc - Part 2
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(1999)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe
Director: Christian Duguay
Certificate:
Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
Run time: 92 minutes
Once there lived a legend whose coming had been foretold by the great prophet Merlin. It was said that after nearly a century of war, a maiden would unite her divided people. It did not say how...
This star-studded epic mini-series tells the triumphant yet tragic true story of one of history's ..read more »
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Death Wish
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(1974)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
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Run time: 93 minutes
In this explosive story of revenge and urban violence, Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal who has a change of opinion after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs in their apartment. His daughter is raped, and his wife is raped and murdered. Bronson ..read more »
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For once a serialisation matches the quality of the book 5 March 2006
...cellent casting combined with fantastic location makes for compelling viewing. Olympia Dukakis in particular shines as the enigmatic Mrs Madrigal. I would heartily recommend...
An unexpected joy 2 October 2008
