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Maggie Smith
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Maggie Smith - what members say
review by feelinglistless from Liverpool, England
The new Harry Potter film is brilliant 3 June 2004
review by from Oxford
A classic 3 October 2006
review by from Essex
Hogwarts worthy champion !!!!! 10 August 2006
Maggie Smith - filmography
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Quartet - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Certificate: 
Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and ..read more »
 
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from 197 members
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Quartet
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Certificate:
Dustin Hoffman directs this comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name. Beecham House is a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and ..read more »
68%
from 667 members
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench
Director: John Madden
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace ..read more »
76%
from 15,446 members
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Gnomeo and Juliet - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith
Director: Kelly Asbury
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
67%
from 7,258 members
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Gnomeo and Juliet - 3D Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith
Director: Kelly Asbury
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The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
69%
from 1,135 member
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Christmas at Downton
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Brendan Coyle, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter
Director: Brian Percival
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Christmas episode of the ITV costume drama. It's 1919, and preparations for a lavish Christmas party at Downton Abbey are under way. The general atmosphere, however, is tense, as Bates (Brendan Coyle)'s arrest threatens to mar proceedings. Meanwhile, Mary (Michelle Dockery) is forced to reconsider ..read more »
82%
from 362 members
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Gnomeo and Juliet
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith
Director: Kelly Asbury
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? In "Gnomeo & Juliet," Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But, with plastic ..read more »
70%
from 38,913 members
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Downton Abbey - Series 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern
Director: Brian Percival, Ben Bolt, Brian Kelly
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Downton is the home of the Crawleys, who have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms, library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as ..read more »
86%
from 642 members
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From Time to Time
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Alex Etel, Pauline Collins, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Julian Fellowes
Certificate: 
Fantasy drama which sees a young evacuee stumbling into another time after he is sent to stay in the countryside. 13-year-old Tolly (Alex Etel) is sent to stay with his grandmother (Maggie Smith), but after discovering his ancestors' spirits are still very much alive in the heart of the home, he is ..read more »
68%
from 1,969 member
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Capturing Mary
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: David Walliams, Ruth Wilson, Maggie Smith
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Certificate: 
In this, the companion piece to Stephen Poliakoff's 'Joe's Palace', Poliakoff takes his characters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past. Dame Maggie Smith, in the title role, is taken back to the time when she was a brilliant writer and critic, remembering parties and functions with ..read more »
68%
from 1,152 member
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Michael G, Clemence Po, Daniel Radcliffe
Director: Mike Newell
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Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment of the hugely popular 'Harry Potter' series sees Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) board the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he will attend his fourth year of magical education. Shortly after his reunion with his best friends, Ron (..read more »
72%
from 78,709 members
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Keeping Mum
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Emilia Fox, Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson
Director: Niall Johnson
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Comedy starring Rowan Atkinson as Walter Goodfellow, a well-meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop, who is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to his wife Gloria's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dallience with her brash golf instructor, Lance (Patrick Swayze); neither ..read more »
66%
from 37,044 members
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Ladies In Lavender
(2004)
Starring: Toby Jones, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith
Director: Charles Dance
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Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly ..read more »
63%
from 30,028 members
Currently unavailable
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My House in Umbria
(2003)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper, Ronnie Barker
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Italian-set drama starring Maggie Smith as Emily Delahunty, an author of romantic novels living in Umbria. One day, while on a shopping excursion to Milan, she becomes one of a number of victims of a terrorist bomb attack on the train. Emily recovers quickly from the event, but others in her ..read more »
62%
from 7,833 members
Currently unavailable
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All The King's Men
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: David Jason, William Ash, Sonya Walger
Director: Julian Jarrold
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This BBC drama portrays the events leading up to and surrounding the disappearance at Gallipoli in 1915 of the Sandringham Company, made up of the King's household staff. Led by estate manager Captain Frank Beck (David Jason), the company left their rural existence to fight in the Great War, and ..read more »
70%
from 724 members
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Richard III
(1995)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jim Broadbent
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Sir Ian McKellen takes the title role in this updated version of Shakespeare's play, based on Richard Eyre's acclaimed theatrical production. After a blood-soaked civil war in 1930s London, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays claim to the English throne. The deformed monarch-apparent uses all his ..read more »
68%
from 2,225 members
Currently unavailable
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The Secret Garden
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Kate Maberly, John Lynch
Director: Agnieszka Holland
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Bringing the Francis Hodgson Burnett classic to the big screen; Mary Lennox is the young orphan sent to stay with her uncle in a forbidding mansion. She not only discovers an invalid cousin she never knew she had but also a secret garden in need of repair.
70%
from 4,078 members
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Sister Act
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Maggie Smith
Director: Emile Ardolino
Certificate:
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Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a lounge singer with aspirations to be a star, but instead becomes the star witness to a mob murder. She goes to the police, is put into the state witness protection scheme and sent to a nunnery run by a starchy Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). Whilst there ..read more »
69%
from 10,535 members
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Hook
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert Chapin, Dustin Hoffman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Steven Spielberg
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Granny Wendy Darling must convince the middle-aged lawyer, Peter Banning, that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, of friendship, and of ..read more »
66%
from 15,067 members
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Hook - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Robert Chapin, Dustin Hoffman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Steven Spielberg
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
In this development of the Peter Pan story, busy American lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams) takes his family to London for a holiday with Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith). But the visit takes an unexpected turn when Peter's kids are abducted by the villainous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman), forcing ..read more »
73%
from 348 members
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A Room With A View
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: , ,
Director: James Ivory
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Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost. Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper ..read more »
70%
from 9,031 members
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A Room With A View - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: , ,
Director: James Ivory
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Merchant-Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. At the turn of the century, Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter) has her passions stirred by young George Emerson (Julian Sands) while on holiday in Italy. On her return to Surrey she tries to put George behind her, but becomes increasingly ..read more »
69%
from 102 members
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A Private Function
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Charles McKeown, Pete Postlethwaite, Denholm Elliott
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
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A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on ..read more »
69%
from 1,637 member
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The Missionary
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Trevor Howard, David Suchet
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Recalled to London after spending years in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortesque (Michael Palin) is given a new and no less difficult mission. He will now be required to bring the Word of the Lord to the ladies of the night. Thus he goes forth amongst them, bringing help and assitance, offering ..read more »
61%
from 737 members
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Clash of the Titans - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.
66%
from 1,048 member
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Clash of the Titans
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.
71%
from 4,501 members
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Quartet
(1981)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Daniel Chatto, Isabelle Adjani
Director: James Ivory
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Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, this Merchant-Ivory drama is set in bohemian 1920s Paris. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marya Zelli, a beautiful young novelist who finds herself destitute when her art dealer husband, Stephan (Anthony Higgins) is sent to prison for theft. A rich ..read more »
50%
from 468 members
Not currently released
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Death On The Nile
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Jane Birkin, Angela Lansbury, Lois Chiles
Director: John Guillermin
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Peter Ustinov stars as detective Hercule Poirot in this star-studded Agatha Christie mystery, set in the 1930s. When a rich heiress is murdered aboard a steamship travelling down the Nile, Poirot discovers that almost all the passengers had a reason to kill her. Will he be able to locate the true ..read more »
69%
from 1,275 member
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California Suite
(1978)
Starring: Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Maggie Smith
Director: Herbert Ross
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Four couples are guests in the same California hotel on the eve of the Academy Awards, in this episodic comedy based on Neil Simon's play. Starring Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith (who won an Oscar for this role), Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
59%
from 816 members
Currently unavailable
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Murder By Death
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Estelle Winwood, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester
Director: Robert Moore
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Spoof whodunnit featuring a host of stars playing variations on well-known fictional detectives. Reclusive millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites a selection of famous sleuths to his mansion and subjects them all to a number of perilous and puzzling scenarios. The guests include Chinese ..read more »
66%
from 2,254 members
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Travels with My Aunt
(1972)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr.
Director: George Cukor
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At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
77%
from 18 members
Currently unavailable
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Oh What A Lovely War
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented as ..read more »
70%
from 1,483 member
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Hot Millions
(1968)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith
Director: Eric Till
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Marcus Pendleton is released from prison after serving his time for embezzlement, only to find that the world has changed. Realising that computers are the new ledgers, he masquerades as Caesar Smith, a computer programmer, and finds employment in this corporate world. So begins his biggest ..read more »
61%
from 31 members
Currently unavailable
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The Honey Pot
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Comedy drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward and Cliff Robertson. This re-working of Ben Jonson's 17th century masterpiece 'Volpone' finds millionaire Cecil Fox (Harrison) pretending to be terminally ill in an attempt to trick three of his former mistresses...read more »
56%
from 42 members
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Go To Blazes
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Daniel Massey, Maggie Smith, Robert Morley
Director: Michael Truman
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Early 1960s British comedy about a gang of bumbling bank robbers. Inept crooks Bernard (Dave King), Harry (Daniel Massey) and Alfie (Norman Rossington) find their latest getaway plans scuppered when they get stuck in traffic due to a passing fire engine. Realising the benefits to be had by using a ..read more »
66%
from 56 members
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Nowhere to Go
(1958)
Starring: Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Lee, Maggie Smith
Director: Seth Holt
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First-time director Seth Holt's stylish noir drama stars George Nader as a fugitive on the run from the police. Sentenced to ten years in prison for robbing an old lady of her valuable coin collection, Canadian thief Paul Gregory (Nader) is swiftly sprung from jail by his former partner-in-crime ..read more »
70%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Charles Dickens Collection
(8 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Hordern, Eric Porter, John Mills
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Eight BBC television adaptations of the classic novels of Charles Dickens. In 'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1994), old Mr Chuzzlewit (Paul Scofield) is on his death bed, and surrounded by his money-hungry family jostling for a position in his will. In 'Oliver Twist' (1985), Ben Rodska plays the orphan who ..read more »
69%
from 2,655 members
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The George Bernard Shaw Collection
(8 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Maggie Smith, Ian Richardson, Patrick Stewart
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BBC adaptations of ten classic plays by the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw, featuring performaces from actors such as Patrick Stewart, Ian Richardson, Maggie Smith, Tom Baker, Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Callow, and many more. Includes: 'Arms and the Man'; 'The Man of Destiny'; 'The Devil's ..read more »
59%
from 129 members
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Great Authors - Charles Dickens
(3 discs)
Starring: Trevor Eve, Anton Lesser, Michael Elphick
Certificate: 
A three-volume documentary set exploring the life and work of the great Victorian novelist. Illustrating how Dickens drew on his experiences for his fiction, the set also includes the 1999 dramatised BBC production of 'David Copperfield'.
65%
from 71 members
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Maggie Smith facts
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