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Helen Mirren
Born 26 July 1945, in Ilford, Essex – Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov (dad is of Russian origin) is now more commonly known (but not, you know, commonly) as Blighty’s second-most famous acting Dame, Helen Mirren.
But at least she's played Her Majesty more often than Dame Judi – in The Madness Of King George as Queen Charlotte, wife of George III; Elizabeth I in the TV series of the same name; and a BAFTA-winner as our current monarch in The Queen.
By her early 20s, Mirren was a star of the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company, which meant much Bard work, on both stage and screen. And while enjoying a variety of film and telly work, she's perhaps best known as detective Jane Tennyson in the highly-rated Prime Suspect crime drama series.
Wise Words: "In England, becoming a Dame is a big deal. I do feel it's a great honour. But I had to think about it quite seriously for a couple of weeks. It does sort of squash you into the establishment thing. In the end, my baser feelings got the better of me. I succumbed to Pride."
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Helen Mirren - news / articles
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Dame Helen Mirren was lined up for Olympic role -
26 August 2012
-Dame Helen Mirren was lined-up to portray The Queen onscreen once again as part of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games if the monarch refused to take part.-The royal was filmed leaving London's Buckingham Palace with Daniel Craig in character as James Bond and
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Dame Helen Mirren regrets snubbing Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee -
4 May 2012
-Dame Helen Mirren refused to take part in the Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977 because she was a "grumpy anti-monarchist".-The veteran star sneered at the parties marking the 25th anniversary of the royal's accession to the throne because she didn't approve of the
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Mirren learns how to save a life -
30 March 2012
-Dame Helen Mirren has learned how to give CPR after signing up to become a patron for an ambulance organisation.-The Queen star toured the London Ambulance Voluntary Responder Group this week (begs26Mar12) after agreeing to become the group's new spokesperson.- Duri
Helen Mirren - what members say
review by A customer from Essex, UK
Still A great film after 25 years 9 January 2004
review by Hayden from stevenage
First Class !!! 22 February 2007
review by from Ipswich England
Gritty and excellent 30 July 2004
Helen Mirren - filmography
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Radioman
(2012)
Starring: Josh Brolin, Craig Castaldo, Clooney
Director: Mary Kerr
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The New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
 
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Hitchcock - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson
Director: Sacha Gervasi
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Anthony Hopkins plays the legendary director in this biopic that chronicles the personal and professional relationship between Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of his 1960 classic 'Psycho'. It's 1959 and, increasingly worried about his relevance, Hitchcock ..read more »
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Due for release on 16th August 2013
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Arthur
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Luis Guzmán, Russell Brand, Helen Mirren
Director: Jason Winer
Certificate: 
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Arthur Bach has always relied on two things to get by: his limitless fortune and the good sense of lifelong nanny Hobson to keep him out of trouble. Now he faces his biggest challenge, choosing between an arranged marriage that will ensure his lavish lifestyle or an uncertain future with the one ..read more »
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Arthur - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Luis Guzmán, Russell Brand, Helen Mirren
Director: Jason Winer
Certificate:
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Arthur is a sweet but wildly irresponsible playboy whose millions have left him lonely and with no motivation in life. On the threshold of an arranged marriage with a simpering socialite whom he does not love, Arthur meets the spunky, blue-collar waitress Linda Marolla, and falls head over heels. ..read more »
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Love Ranch
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Director: Taylor Hackford
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"Love Ranch" is a bittersweet love story that turns explosive when the players in a romantic triangle lose control and cross the line. Set in the late-1970s, the film depicts larger than life personalities living on the edge, Grace Bontempo and Charlie Bontempo, the husband and wife team who own ..read more »
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from 361 members
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Brighton Rock - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren
Director: Rowan Joffe
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The year is 1964. The place is Brighton. A once quiet seaside town is suddenly overrun by gangs of sharp suited Mods and greasy Rockers looking for a riot. Amongst the chaos lurks top Mod and gangster Pinkie Brown. Ruthless, ambitious and horrifically violent, Pinkie will stop at nothing in his ..read more »
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from 3,486 members
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The Debt - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren
Director: John Madden
Certificate:
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In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.
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from 801 members
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The Last Station
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Director: Michael Hoffman, Sebastian Edschmid
Certificate:
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Set in the last tumultuous years of famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life, centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife Sofya Andreyevna and his leading disciple Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his ..read more »
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from 7,246 members
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RED
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Certificate:
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Bruce Willis stars in this star-studded action comedy based on D.C. Comics' cult graphic novel. Former CIA top agent Frank Moses (Willis) is now enjoying an idyllic, if rather dull, retirement. But life gets a whole lot more interesting when he narrowly escapes death at the hands of a high-tech ..read more »
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RED - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Certificate:
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Bruce Willis stars in this star-studded action comedy based on D.C. Comics' cult graphic novel. Former CIA top agent Frank Moses (Willis) is now enjoying an idyllic, if rather dull, retirement. But life gets a whole lot more interesting when he narrowly escapes death at the hands of a high-tech ..read more »
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from 21,358 members
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The Tempest
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Alfred Molina
Director: Julie Taymor
Certificate: 
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In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-..read more »
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Legend of the Guardians - The Owls of Ga...
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Emilie de Ravin, Hugo Weaving, Helen Mirren
Director: Zack Snyder
Certificate:
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Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. ..read more »
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The Debt
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren
Director: John Madden
Certificate:
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In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.
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from 3,175 members
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Legend of the Guardians - The Owls of Ga...
(2010)
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Helen Mirren, Emilie de Ravin
Director: Zack Snyder
Certificate:
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Animated adaptation of the first three books of the 'Guardians of Ga'Hoole' series by Kathryn Lasky. Barn owl Soren (voice of Jim Sturgess) is abducted and taken to St. Aggie's, a home for orphan owls. However, it is no ordinary orphanage - at St. Aggie's young owls are programmed into becoming ..read more »
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Brighton Rock
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren
Director: Rowan Joffe
Certificate:
The year is 1964. The place is Brighton. A once quiet seaside town is suddenly overrun by gangs of sharp suited Mods and greasy Rockers looking for a riot. Amongst the chaos lurks top Mod and gangster Pinkie Brown. Ruthless, ambitious and horrifically violent, Pinkie will stop at nothing in his ..read more »
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State Of Play - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rob Benedict
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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Political thriller based on the acclaimed 2003 BBC mini-series. With the action transposed from Westminster to Washington, the film follows the investigations of journalist Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) as he probes into the suspicious death of the mistress and former research assistant of ambitious ..read more »
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The Jazz Baroness
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes
Director: Hannah Rothschild
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The true story of a Jewish British Baroness who fell in love with the musical genius Thelonious Monk.
Helen Mirren is the voice of the Jazz Baroness and Sonny Rollins, TS Monk Junior, The Duchess of Devonshire, Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Roy Haynes, Chico Hamilton help recreate her story. The ..read more »
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State of Play
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder ..read more »
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Inkheart - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
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A girl's father has the ability to summon book characters to life by reading aloud. When a nasty, rotten pack of rogues from a fable kidnap Pops, our heroine must join forces with her fictional friends and rescue him.
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from 3,024 members
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Inkheart
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Director: Iain Softley
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A girl's father has the ability to summon book characters to life by reading aloud. When a nasty, rotten pack of rogues from a fable kidnap Pops, our heroine must join forces with her fictional friends and rescue him.
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Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Eve Best, Gary Lewis, Stephen Tompkinson
Director: Phillip Martin
Certificate:
The final installment of Lynda la Plante's popular detective drama. Tennison's (Helen Mirren) retirement is on the cards but as her career draws to an end, Jane is paying dearly for a career studded with loneliness and internally directed anger. Her demons surface and she drinks them away night ..read more »
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Elizabeth I
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones
Director: Tom Hooper
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Helen Mirren stars as Elizabeth I in the two-part Channel 4 drama written by Nigel Williams. The drama portrays 'The Virgin Queen' in her later years, exposing the conflict between her sense of duty and the instincts of her heart, her doomed affair with the Earl of Essex and the struggles of a ..read more »
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The Queen - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, Sylvia Syms
Director: Stephen Frears
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Stephen Frears' critically acclaimed portrait of the English Monarch in time of strife. One of the most turbulent times in British politics in recent memory seen from an insider's perspective - an almost documentary look at the relationship between the figurehead and the brains behind the UK. It's ..read more »
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The Queen
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Roger Allam, Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen
Director: Stephen Frears
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This is the story of the death of Princess Diana of Wales and the relationship between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Royal Family upon hearing of her death.
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Elizabeth I - E01
(2005)
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Jeremy Irons, Ian McDiarmid
Director: Tom Hooper
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Part One focuses on Elizabeth's relationship with The Earl of Leicester, her lover and trusted advisor. This relationship also forms the prism through which the two other major events of this part of Elizabeth I's reign are viewed: the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the war with Spain.
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Pride
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet, Sean Bean
Director: John Downer
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BBC-produced live-action family film, using footage of a pride of lions in East Africa accompanied by dialogue from actors including Sean Bean, Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet. The drama, which is enhanced by CGI animation, has its basis in factual wildlife research and observation.
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The Clearing
(2004)
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
Certificate:
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the ..read more »
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Raising Helen
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Helen Mirren, Hayden Panettiere
Director: Garry Marshall
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Romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson as Helen Harris, a 20-something Manhattan socialite with a successful fashion career. However, her dream lifestyle is brought to a shuddering halt when she gets a phone call to inform her that not only are her sister and brother-in-law dead, but she must now ..read more »
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Calendar Girls
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: John Alderton, Helen Mirren, Annette Crosbie
Director: Nigel Cole
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Helen Mirren and Julia Walters star in this British comedy based on a true story. Two middle-aged best friends, Chris Harper (Mirren) and Annie Clarke (Walters), are also members of a North Yorkshire Women's Institute group. When Annie's husband (John Alderton) is diagnosed with leukemia, they ..read more »
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Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Mark Strong, Tanya Moodie, Clare Holman
Director: Tom Hooper
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For seven years Detective Superintendent Tennison has headed up a London murder squad. Finding herself at odds with the new guard at the Met, she pulls rank on a junior colleague to take over the investigation into the brutal torture and murder of a young Bosnian refugee. The case draws Tennison ..read more »
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kristin Scott-Thomas, Emily Watson, Sophie Thompson
Director: Robert Altman
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It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a weekend shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idol Ivor Novello ..read more »
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The Pledge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Sam Shepard, Aaron Eckhart
Director: Sean Penn
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On the day of his retirement, Nevada homicide detective Jerry Black lingers in his office one last time. But when the body of a murdered 8-year-old girl is discovered in the snow-blanketed mountains, the reluctant retiree is unable to step aside. Jerry offers his expertise at the crime scene, and ..read more »
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Last Orders
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Helen Mirren, Michael Caine
Director: Fred Schepisi
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When one of a group of lifelong friends dies, his buddies are left to carry out his last wishes: to take his ashes and dispose of them off the pier in the seaside town of Margate. As their sentimental journey begins and their own emotional mysteries unfold, they try to come to terms with Jack's ..read more »
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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 »
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Greenfingers
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Warren Clarke, David Kelly, Clive Owen
Director: Joel Hershman
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Colin Briggs is a man who has given up on life. Nearing the end of a long sentence for murder, Colin is transferred to Edgefield, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds. Once there, Colin meets Fergus Wilks, an eccentric "lifer" who gives Colin an unwanted packet of seeds as a Christmas present...read more »
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The Passion Of Ayn Rand
(1999)
Starring: Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda, Eric Stoltz
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Nathaniel (Eric Stoltz) and Barbara (Julie Delpy) are two college students who greatly admire the work of author Ayn Rand (Helen Mirren). Ayn is a woman who has a great influence on the people she meets due to her high intellect and all-consuming charm but she holds delusions of grandeur, always ..read more »
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Teaching Mrs Tingle
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Katie Holmes
Director: Kevin Williamson
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Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes) is the brightest student at Grandsboro High, but her dreams of winning a college scholarship are ruined when her history teacher, Mrs Tingle (Helen Mirren), falsely accuses her of cheating. Leigh is desperate to prove her innocence, and with the help of her closest ..read more »
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Critical Care
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Harvey Atkin, Helen Mirren
Director: Sidney Lumet
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When an idealistic young doctor, Dr Werner Ernst, takes on the case of a wealthy, terminally ill patient, he finds himself getting involved in more than just medicine. The two daughers of the patient cannot agree over the fate of their father, but Dr Ernst only wants the best for his patient, that ..read more »
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Some Mother's Son
(1996)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Fionnula Flanagan
Director: Terry George
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Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of ..read more »
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Losing Chase
(1996)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Elva Mai Hoover, Helen Mirren
Director: Kevin Bacon
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Chase (Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Bridges), and like the area, grew into the Upper-Middle-Class. Her distaste for artificiality leads her to a wild breakdown, and Richard dutifully tries to restore their family unit as best he knows how by hiring a 'Mother's ..read more »
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Prime Suspect 5 - Errors Of Judgement
(1996)
Starring: David O'Hara, Helen Mirren, Julia Lane
Director: Phil Davis
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Another case for Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison. With a transfer to Manchester, Tennison (Helen Mirren) finds herself lecturing school children on law and order. She demands something a little more up her usual alley, and is soon investigating the murder of a drug dealer. When a 14-year-old ..read more »
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Prime Suspect 4 - The Lost Child
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: John Benfield, Lesley Sharp, Stuart Wilson
Director: John Madden
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Newly-promoted Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) investigates a missing child case at London's Southampton Row. The trail leads to serial sex offender Chris Hughes, recently released from a custodial treatment centre. When an arrest attempt backfires, Tennison finds herself ..read more »
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Prime Suspect 3
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Andrew Woodall, Tom Bell, Peter Capaldi
Director: David Drury
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Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is back on duty, transferred from Southampton Row to the Soho Vice Squad. Ordered to clear out prostitutes and rent boys in the area, Tennison is soon embroiled in another murder case when the corpse of a 17-year-old rent boy is found in a ..read more »
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Prime Suspect - S03 E04
(1993)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Peter Capaldi
Director: David Drury
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All evidence is pointing to a cover up for something more sinister and Jane's suspicions are mounting that someone in the department is involved. Will Jane capture them before more teenagers are abused?
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Prime Suspect - S03 E01
(1993)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Peter Capaldi
Director: David Drury
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Transferred to a new station with the new job of ‘cleaning up the streets’ of Soho, DCI Jane Tennison and her new team become involved in the seedy underworld of vice involving rent boys and transvestites, pornography and sickening abuse.
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Prime Suspect 2
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Richard Hawley, Craig Fairbrass, John Benfield
Director: John Strickland
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The second of this successful police drama serial. Helen Mirren revives her role as DCI Tennison, called in to head an investigation into the death of a young black woman, whose body is found in the back garden of a house in London. As she begins to investigate, she finds that she is having to deal ..read more »
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The Hawk
(1992)
Starring: Melanie Hill, Helen Mirren, George Costigan
Director: David Hayman
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British serial killer thriller starring Helen Mirren as Annie Marsh, a woman who suspects that perhaps she does not know her husband as well as she thought. When a series of brutal murders take place in her local area, Annie notices that her husband is going out a lot at night and that there are ..read more »
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Prime Suspect - S02 E01
(1992)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Benfield, Andrew Tiernan
Director: John Strickland
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When a corpse is discovered in an Afro-Caribbean neighbourhood, the controversial subject of racism in the police force rears its head. DCI Jane Tennison is called in to head a sensitive enquiry into how the corpse came to lie in its burial place.
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Prime Suspect 1
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Called in to head a murder enquiry, D.C.I. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is immediately confronted by hostility and aggression from her male colleagues. With her strength of character and skills as a detective continually tested to the limit, she exposes a far-reaching cover-up within the force. ..read more »
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Where Angels Fear To Tread
(1991)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Judy Davis, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Edwardian period piece in which an English widow (Helen Mirren) goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes. When she dies during childbirth, a brother- and sister-in-law are dispatched to fetch back the baby. With Helena Bonham Carter, ..read more »
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The Comfort Of Strangers
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren
Director: Paul Schrader
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In this erotic thriller, a young English couple on vacation in Venice find themselves seduced by a mysterious older couple. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship. They soon meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the ..read more »
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When The Whales Came
(1989)
Starring: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren
Director: Clive Rees
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A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the narwhals who sometimes come.
Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
Based on story by Children'..read more »
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Cause Celebre
(1987)
Starring: David Morrissey, Neil Jeffery, David Suchet
Director: John Gorrie
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Feature-length ITV crime drama adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, which in turn is based on a real 1930s murder case. Helen Mirren stars as Alma, the pretty and musically talented wife of elderly, impotent architect Francis Rattenbury (Harry Andrews). When her passionate affair with hired ..read more »
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Heavenly Pursuits
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman
Director: Charles Gormley
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An engaging satire on the miracle business, set in a Catholic school in Glasgow whose status-seeking authorities are much taxed by the problem of canonisation for their patron, the Blessed Edith Semple, who died in 1917 with one authenticated miracle to her credit. She needs two more, the Vatican ..read more »
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The Mosquito Coast
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Andre Gregory, River Phoenix
Director: Peter Weir
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Idealistic inventor Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) turns his back on modern America and takes his family to a remote part of Central America, where he carries out a scheme to manufacture ice for the jungle dwellers. While he proves innovative and ingenious in taming the jungle, his obsessive nature ..read more »
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The Twilight Zone - Season 1
(6 discs)
(1985)
Starring: John Carradine, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis
Director: Joe Dante, Paul L, William Friedkin
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All 24 episodes from the American anthology sci-fi series, based on the cult 1960s series by Rod Serling. In each episode, ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances, where the normal laws of reality no longer apply. In this series, a housewife finds a medal that can freeze time, a space ..read more »
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White Nights
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Gregory Hines, Isabella Rossellini, Jerzy Skolimowski
Director: Taylor Hackford
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Michail Baryshnikov is A Russian ballet dancer who defected to the USA ten years prior to the opening of the film. Unfortunately, a plane on which he is travelling is forced to land in Russia and suddenly he is being chased by the KGB. Gregory Hines is there to accompany him on some breathtaking ..read more »
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Cal
(1984)
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann
Director: Pat O'Connor
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Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
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2010 - The Year We Make Contact
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Bob Balaban, Roy Scheider, Keir Dullea
Director: Peter Hyams
Certificate:
A belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001 - A Space Odyssey' (1968) - an earlier Arthur C. Clarke novel. Nine years after the Jupiter voyage of Discovery went mysteriously awry, the Soviet Union and United States team together to launch a salvage operation, despite being on the brink of nuclear ..read more »
63%
from 7,317 members
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Cymbeline
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Richard Johnson, Helen Mirren, Michael Pennington
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Cymbeline, the ..read more »
63%
from 149 members
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Excalibur
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Nigel Terry, Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren
Director: John Boorman
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John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur. By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Nigel Terry is perfectly cast as ..read more »
65%
from 6,409 members
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Hussy
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: John Shea, Patti Boulaye, Murray Salem
Director: Matthew Chapman
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Enter the seedy, smoky world of London's clubland in the late 1970s. Helen Mirren stars as Beaty, a self-destructive woman whose life has encompassed drugs, prostitution and a dangerous gangster lover. While she is working as a hostess in a nightclub she meets, and falls in love with, a mysterious ..read more »
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from 220 members
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Caligula - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
Director: Tinto Brass
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The full, unexpurgated version of Tinto Brass's infamous soft-porn Roman epic. Malcolm McDowell stars as the deranged Emperor whose depraved acts include giving his horse political office, sleeping with his own sister and executing anyone who remotely displeases him. Gore Vidal provides the (..read more »
48%
from 349 members
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The Long Good Friday
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: derek thomp, derek tho, P.H. Moriarty
Director: John Mackenzie
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Acclaimed gangster thriller starring Bob Hoskins as a top London crime boss whose attempts to launch a legitimate business enterprise are disrupted by a number of bombs from an unknown adversary. Harold Shand (Hoskins) is a gangster who has worked his way to the top with utter ruthlessness and a ..read more »
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from 10,024 members
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Caligula
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
Director: Tinto Brass
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Tinto Brass' infamous soft-porn Roman epic stars Malcolm McDowell as the deranged titular Emperor, and provides an unexpected entry on the CV of a number of well-respected actors. Author Gore Vidal provides the (uncredited) screenplay, which envisages first century Rome, under the rule of Tiberius ..read more »
39%
from 3,177 members
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SOS Titanic
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Jerry Houser, Ian Holm, Victor Langley
Director: William Hale
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Made-for-TV drama documenting the doomed liner's maiden voyage in 1912. Viewed from the perspective of three groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class, and highlighting the role that class distinction played in events, the film charts the fortunes of millionaire John Jacob Astor (David ..read more »
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The Long Good Friday - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: derek thomp, derek tho, P.H. Moriarty
Director: John Mackenzie
Certificate:
Acclaimed gangster thriller starring Bob Hoskins as a top London crime boss whose attempts to launch a legitimate business enterprise are disrupted by a number of bombs from an unknown adversary. Harold Shand (Hoskins) is a gangster who has worked his way to the top with utter ruthlessness and a ..read more »
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from 1,083 member
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As You Like It
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, James Bolam
Director: Basil Coleman
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Banished young ..read more »
60%
from 268 members
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O Lucky Man!
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Malcolm McDowell reprises his role as Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's blackly satirical follow-up to 'If....' (1968). Mick is determined to become a success in the business world and gets his first break from Imperial Coffee manager Mr. Duff (Arthur Lowe), who offers him a position as a salesman. ..read more »
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from 1,208 member
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Miss Julie
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Donal McCann
Director: John Glenister, Robin Phillips
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Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Helen Mirren gives an acclaimed performance in the title role as the bored and restless daughter of a Count who finds herself getting involved with Jean (Donal McCann), her father's footman, after a flirtatious encounter at ..read more »
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from 71 members
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Age Of Consent
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran
Director: Michael Powell
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Disillusioned with life, celebrated artist Bradley Morahan (James Mason) retreats to the solitude of a tropical island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The island, however, turns out to be far from uninhabited. Bradley soon stumbles upon Cora, played by Helen Mirren (The Queen), a beautiful, ..read more »
56%
from 254 members
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Herostratus
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Gabriella Licudi, Mona Chin, Helen Mirren
Director: Don Levy
Certificate:
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A young poet wishing to take his own life soon finds events have overtaken him in this experimental 1960s drama from director Don Levy. Disillusioned poet Max (Michael Gothard) decides to commit suicide, but rather than making it a quiet affair, Max contacts the local media so that, he hopes, his ..read more »
59%
from 112 members
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Herostratus And Don Levy Shorts - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Gabriella Licudi, Mona Chin, Helen Mirren
Director: Don Levy
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A young poet wishing to take his own life soon finds events have overtaken him in this experimental 1960s drama from director Don Levy. Disillusioned poet Max (Michael Gothard) decides to commit suicide, but rather than making it a quiet affair, Max contacts the local media so that, he hopes, his ..read more »
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from 39 members
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Snow Queen
on DVD
Starring: Hugh Laurie, David Jason, Ellie Beaven
Director: Martin Gates
Certificate:
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Animated retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fable, directed by Martin Gates and featuring the voices of Helen Mirren, David Jason and Rik Mayall. Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it ..read more »
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from 169 members
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Alan Plater at ITV
Starring: James Bolam, Alison Steadman, Helen Mirren
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An anthology of the BAFTA-winning playwright's work for ITV. Featuring both single plays and selected episodes, the collection includes performances by James Bolam, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alison Steadman, among others. Titles comprise: 'The Beiderbecke Affair: What I Don'..read more »
28%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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Helen Mirren At The BBC
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Robert Hard, James Bolam, Brian Cox
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Box set featuring eleven BBC films starring the award-winning Helen Mirren, dating back to 1974. Includes: 'The Changling' (1974), 'The Apple Cart' (1975), 'Caesar and Claretta' (1975), 'The Philanthropist' (1975), 'The Little Minister' (1975), 'The Country Wife' (1977), 'Blue Remembered Hills' (..read more »
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from 130 members
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The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection
(37 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Rickman, Zoe Wanamaker
Director: Johathan Miller, Rodney Bennett, Shaun Sutton
Certificate:
Box set collection of 34 BBC dramatisations of Shakespeare's classic plays. With directors including Jonathan Miller, Jane Howell, David Giles, and Elijah Moshinsky, the plays star Alan Rickman, John Gielgud, Zoe Wanamaker, Bernard Hill, Helen Mirren, Nigel Hawthorne, Bob Hoskins, Derek Jacobi and ..read more »
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...Harold Shand is brilliantly played by Bob Hoskins, supported well by his 'moll' Helen Mirren. Notable appearances from Derek Thompson (Casualty) and Pierce Brosnan (James B...
