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Imelda Staunton
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Imelda Staunton - what members say
review by PaulaWestwood from Mossley, Lancs.
Definately Spell.....binding.... 14 July 2007
review by A customer from scotland
not overly enthralled.... 18 April 2008
review by A customer from Lisburn, County Antrim
Simply superb 16 February 2008
Imelda Staunton - filmography
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The Girl
(2012)
Starring: Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton, Sienna Miller
Director: Julian Jarrold
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Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers and creativity in 1962 when he chose an unknown fashion model to star in his most ambitious film - The Birds. But while crafting Tippi Hedren into the perfect Hitchcock blonde of his imagination, he became obsessed with the impossible dream of ..read more »
 
62%
from 60 members
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Psychoville - Season 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Daniel Ings, Reece Shearsmith, Imelda Staunton
Director: Matt Lipsey
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More intrigue, suspense, weirdness and laughs in the return of the cliff-hanging comedy thriller...
After the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital, Mr Jelly, Joy, David and Maureen Sowerbutts, Mr Lomax and Robert just want to get on with their twisted, mad and sad lives. But the shadowy, if ..read more »
81%
from 591 members
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Psychoville - Season 2 - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Daniel Ings, Reece Shearsmith, Imelda Staunton
Director: Matt Lipsey
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More intrigue, suspense, weirdness and laughs in the return of the cliff-hanging comedy thriller...
After the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital, Mr Jelly, Joy, David and Maureen Sowerbutts, Mr Lomax and Robert just want to get on with their twisted, mad and sad lives. But the shadowy, if ..read more »
79%
from 351 members
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The Awakening
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton
Director: Nick Murphy
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Starring Dominic West (The Wire, 300), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), THE AWAKENING is the chilling new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy. In post-World War I England in 1921, an author and paranormal skeptic (Hall) is invited to a countryside ..read more »
68%
from 23,083 members
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The Awakening - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Isaac Hempstead Wright
Director: Nick Murphy
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Psychological/supernatural chiller from first time director Nick Murphy. In the aftermath of WWI, and still haunted by the death of her fiance, sceptic Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) sets out to debunk the many supernatural claims sweeping the country using rational and scientific means. When she'..read more »
66%
from 7,582 members
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White Other
(2010)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Tom Felton
Director: Dan Hartley
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White Other is a psychological drama about a nurse working the night shift in an East London Hospital and a troubled youth who arrives in the dead of night, intent on saving his brother and ending a gangland feud.
76%
from 24 members
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Another Year
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville
Director: Mike Leigh
Certificate: 
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Mike Leigh writes and directs this observational comedy drama depicting a year in the life of a contented middle-aged London couple. Medical counsellor Gerri (Ruth Sheen) is happily married to Tom (Jim Broadbent). The film follows Gerri over the course of the year as she opens her home and heart to ..read more »
63%
from 20,978 members
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Taking Woodstock - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Kelli Garner, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton
Director: Ang Lee
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Comedy drama from celebrated director Ang Lee, based on the memoir 'Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life' by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. The year is 1969 and Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin) has had to move back to work in his parents' run down Catskills motel after an ..read more »
62%
from 77 members
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Taking Woodstock
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Liev Schre, Dan Fogler
Director: Ang Lee
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It is 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a failing interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has moved back home to help his parents run their dilapidated motel. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still deciding how to "..read more »
66%
from 310 members
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Clay
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Ian McElhinney, Ben-Ryan Davies
Director: Andrew Gunn
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Set in the mid-60s and follows the story of how 14-year-old David's life is changed forever by a mysterious outsider named Stephen. Stephen is been kicked out of priest-school, not even the fathers could understand and tolerate his strange influence. Mesmerized by Stephen's gift to mould clay ..read more »
56%
from 119 members
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Three and Out
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Gemma Arterton
Director: Jonathan Gershfield
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You're a London tube driver and you've had two 'one-unders' in as many weeks. You're traumatized but completely blameless. Then you're told about the '3 and Out' rule; three fatal accidents within a month and you're out of a job but with a huge pay off! What do you do? Take trauma counselling and ..read more »
59%
from 9,881 members
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Big And Small Vol.1
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Lenny Henry
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Children's television series following the adventures of two unlikely best friends, voiced by Lenny Henry and Imelda Staunton. Through humorous and engaging stories, with a song in each episode, young viewers are encouraged to see the world from a very different perspective.
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from 34 members
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Return to Cranford
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Francesca Annis, Jonathan Pryce, Imelda Staunton
Director: Simon Curtis
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Both instalments of the 2009 Christmas special of the BBC costume drama starring Judi Dench. The two-part episode picks up the story in September 1844, a year since the small Cheshire market town celebrated the wedding of Sophy (Kimberley Nixon) and Dr Harrison (Simon Woods). Miss Matty (Dench) ..read more »
81%
from 563 members
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Cranford - Complete BBC Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
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Lavish BBC costume drama based on three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell. The series tells the story of the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, as they are besieged by forces that they can't withstand. Cranford in the 1840s is a small northern English town on ..read more »
84%
from 3,171 members
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How About You...
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Joss Ackland, Hayley Atwell, Orla Brady
Director: Anthony Byrne
Certificate:
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Ellie is left in charge of an elderly residential home, and while most of the residents have left to spend Christmas with their families, four residents known as 'The Hard Core' remain. The Hard Core have become impossible to live with. In fact, their rude and objectionable behaviour is so terrible ..read more »
69%
from 833 members
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The Wind In The Willows
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Anna Maxwell Martin, Imelda Staunton, Matt Lucas
Director: Rachel Talalay
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Lavish BBC adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic story starring Bob Hoskins as Badger, Matt Lucas as Toad and Imelda Staunton as the Barge Lady. Adapted by writer Lee Hall, writer of 'Billy Elliot', the film also stars Mark Gatiss as Rat and Lee Ingleby as Mole.
66%
from 240 members
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Nanny McPhee
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton
Director: Kirk Jones
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In this dark and witty fable, Nanny McPhee (a person of an unsettling appearance and magical powers) enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon, have managed to drive away 17 ..read more »
69%
from 51,587 members
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Nanny McPhee - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Kirk Jones
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In this dark and witty fable, Nanny McPhee (a person of an unsettling appearance and magical powers) enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon, have managed to drive away 17 ..read more »
70%
from 230 members
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Vera Drake
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Phil Davis
Director: Mike Leigh
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Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the ..read more »
66%
from 51,960 members
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I'll Be There
(2003)
Starring: Ian Mcneice, Imelda Staunton, Estelle Harris
Director: Craig Ferguson
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In the eighties, pop star Paul Kerr (Craig Ferguson) was drawing legions of screaming fans and selling millions of records. During that time, he spent an extraordinary three days with Rebecca (Jemma Redgrave) before he flew to America to become a superstar. He never heard from her again, and never ..read more »
55%
from 474 members
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Bright Young Things
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen Fry
Certificate:
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Adam and his friends are young, party-goers who cannot keep still for a moment. Among all the madness, Adam is trying to raise enough money to marry Nina. While his attempts are constantly thwarted, his friends are slowly on the road to destruction in their search for newer and faster sensations.
59%
from 7,239 members
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Blackball
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Vince Vaughn, Imelda Staunton
Director: Mel Smith
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Mel Smith directs a very English cast in this light-comedy based loosely on the story of Bowler Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye). Starkey dreams of playing for England however, he just can't keep out of trouble and has always preferred following his own rules - much to the disapproval of the stuck-up ..read more »
61%
from 6,719 members
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Another Life
(2001)
Starring: Nick Moran, Tom Wilkinson, Imelda Staunton
Director: Philip Goodhew
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A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London, will she clear her name or will she hang? Based on a true story.
55%
from 333 members
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Crush
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Anna Chancellor, Imelda Staunton, Andie MacDowell
Director: John McKay
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Headmistress Kate (Andie MacDowell), police officer Janine (Imelda Staunton), and medical doctor Molly (Anna Chancellor) all live in the same English village and meet regularly for dinner. However, their friendship is thrown into disarray when Kate starts dating Jed (Kenny Doughty), one of her ..read more »
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from 1,700 member
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Chicken Run
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: John Sharian, Imelda Staunton, Julia Sawalha
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
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'Wallace and Gromit' progenitor Nick Park's first big screen outing is an animated pastiche of 'The Great Escape'. Life on Tweedy's Chicken Farm is far from pleasant for the inmates; they are badly treated by Mr Tweedy and his domineering wife, and kept alive only as long as they keep producing ..read more »
67%
from 12,749 members
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Rat
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Frank Kelly, Imelda Staunton
Director: Steve Barron
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Pete Postelthwaite is Hubert Flynn, a bread delivery man who loves his Guinness and horse racing more than his wife, and who one night comes home from the pub to discover that he has been turned into a rat. His wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton) is not impressed. She does not forgive easily and ..read more »
53%
from 266 members
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Shakespeare In Love
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Imelda Staunton, Anthony Sher
Director: John Madden
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This Tom Stoppard penned period comedy won seven Oscars, including those for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress (Judi Dench) and Original Screenplay. In late 16th Century London, the theatre's most promising young playwright, Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), is suffering from writer's ..read more »
66%
from 32,175 members
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Twelfth Night
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Imelda Staunton
Director: Trevor Nunn
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The classic Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity and gender confusion is brought to the screen once again in this British production, courtesy of screenwriter-director Trevor Nunn. Nunn has transferred the time period to the Victorian Era of the late 19th century. Two twins, Viola (Imogen ..read more »
67%
from 1,767 member
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Sense and Sensibility - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman
Director: Ang Lee
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Emma Thompson stars in and provides the screenplay for this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Thompson plays Elinor, the eldest of sisters who are reduced in means when their father dies and his estate passes on to his son from his first marriage. They are soon accepted into their new ..read more »
86%
from 10 members
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Sense and Sensibility
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman
Director: Ang Lee
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The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier ..read more »
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from 14,283 members
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Deadly Advice
(1994)
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Imelda Staunton
Director: Mandie Fletcher
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Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in ..read more »
75%
from 2 members
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Snow Queen
on DVD
Starring: Hugh Laurie, David Jason, Ellie Beaven
Director: Martin Gates
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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 167 members
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Imelda Staunton facts
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... performances of the cast. Not to be outshone by our usual friends, and foes, Imelda Staunton is gloriously horrible as Dolores Umbridge, Maggie Smith as always as Minerva, ...
