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Hart: 'I hated the Beatles' -
22 June 2009
-Backbeat star Ian Hart kept a secret while shooting the acclaimed early Beatles movie - he hated the Fab Four. -
-The Liverpudlian actor, who portrayed John Lennon in the 1994 movie, admits he never liked the group growing up - and couldn't understand why they we
Ian Hart - what members say
review by Bassman71 from
I can't be a wizard. I mean, I'm just Harry 5 October 2011
review by A customer from Liverpool, England
HOLLYWOOD GLOSS.. 13 July 2005
review by TristanWhite from London, UK
Utterly brilliant 14 September 2006
Ian Hart - filmography
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Luck - Season 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz
Director: Michael Mann
Certificate: 
Released from prison after three years, "Ace" Bernstein plots revenge against the colleagues who betrayed him. With his trusted aide/chauffeur Gus Demitriou acting as a front for his race horse investment, Ace seeks to reverse the sagging fortunes of a famous racetrack. Meanwhile, four dissolute ..read more »
 
60%
from 129 members
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My Mad Fat Diary - Series 1
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Sharon Rooney, Jodie Comer, Dan Cohen
Director: Tim Kirkby
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Set in the mid-90s at the height of cool Britannia, My Mad Fat Diary takes a hilarious and honest look at teenage life from the perspective of Rae Earl - a funny, music-mad 16-year-old who, despite an eccentric mother and her own body image and mental health issues, has a huge lust for life, love ..read more »
81%
from 65 members
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Hard Boiled Sweets
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Scot Williams, Laura Greenwood, Elizabeth Berrington
Director: David L.G. Hughes
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David L.G. Hughes directs this British gangster thriller set in Southend-On-Sea. Southend is known for having the longest pleasure pier in the world, but it isn't the pursuit of leisure that brings crime boss Jimmy the Gent (Peter Wight) to town. Jimmy has come to visit Shrewd Eddie (Paul Freeman), ..read more »
50%
from 125 members
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Luck - Season 1 - Blu-ray
(3 discs)
(2012)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz
Director: Michael Mann
Certificate:
Released from prison after three years, "Ace" Bernstein plots revenge against the colleagues who betrayed him. With his trusted aide/chauffeur Gus Demitriou acting as a front for his race horse investment, Ace seeks to reverse the sagging fortunes of a famous racetrack. Meanwhile, four dissolute ..read more »
59%
from 106 members
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Father And Son - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Ian Hart
Director: Brian Kirk
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"Father and Son" focuses on inner city crime and the consequences it has on it's victims and the perpetrators. Michael (Dougray Scott) has turned his back on a life of crime after his wife was murdered while he was in prison. Returning to his homeland in Ireland he leaves behind his son Sean in ..read more »
69%
from 657 members
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A Boy Called Dad
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ian Hart, Louise Delamere, Steve Evets
Director: Brian Percival
Certificate:
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When he becomes a father at the tender age of 14, Robbie's life quickly spirals out of control. Feeling angry and neglected by his own dad, he kick-starts a series of events that will catapult him at great speed into adulthood.
64%
from 1,123 member
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Moving On
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dervla Ki, Bhasker Patel, Lesley Sharp
Director: Richard Standeven, Gary Williams
Certificate: 
All five parts of the BBC mini-series co-executive produced by Jimmy McGovern. Each episode is a self-contained drama set in a household in which a family or individual is moving in or out, and looks at how the characters cope with adjustment and change. Episodes are: 'The Rain Has Stopped', 'Bully'..read more »
60%
from 165 members
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Father And Son
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Stephen Rea, Sophie Okonedo
Director: Brian Kirk
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Four-part ITV drama starring Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea and Ian Hart. Former Manchester gangster Michael O'Connor (Scott) is forced to leave behind his now quiet life in Dublin to return to his hometown, where he must do all he can to save his 15-year-old son Sean (Reece Noi) from ..read more »
72%
from 650 members
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The Hours And Times
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sergio Moreno, Robin McDonald, Stephanie Pack
Director: Christopher Munch
Certificate: 
The relationship between John Lennon and Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles, is fictionalized in writer-director Christopher Munch's acclaimed The Hours and Times. The basis of the film is a real-life event from 1963, when Epstein and Lennon left the rest of the Beatles behind to spend an ..read more »
57%
from 146 members
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A Cock and Bull Story
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: David Walliams, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Michael Winterbottom directs this off-beat comedy about an attempt to film Laurence Sterne's 'unfilmable' 18th century novel 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy'. Crossing the line between the world of the film and the life of the actors trying to make it, Steve Coogan plays both himself and ..read more »
52%
from 25,126 members
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Rag Tale
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Sara Stockbridge, Bill Paterson, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Mary McGuckian
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Contemporary urban comedy set during a week in the life of a tabloid newspaper. The tyrannical tycoon chairman, Richard Morton (Malcolm McDowell), and clever but desperate editor, Eddy Taylor (Rupert Graves) battle for political supremacy in the boardroom, using staff journalists as pawns in the ..read more »
36%
from 1,413 member
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Lassie
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Edward Fox, Samantha Morton
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Family comedy based on Eric Knight's 1938 novel. The film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town in northern England. The Carraclough family fall on hard times and have to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole). Transported to the Duke's remote castle in the north ..read more »
61%
from 8,848 members
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Strings
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Catherine McCormack, James McAvoy
Director: Anders Ronnow-Klarlund
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Visually ambitious dark fantasy, the first film to be made entirely using string puppets and marionettes. Young Prince Hal (voiced by James McAvoy) embarks on a perilous quest in order to avenge the murder of his father, the Emperor of Hebalon. As he travels, Hal is shocked to find that the land of ..read more »
53%
from 2,492 members
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Blind Flight
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Linus Roache, Ian Hart
Director: John Furse
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Premiered at the 2003 London Film Festival, this film dramatises the imprisonment of hostages Brian Keenan (Ian Hart) and John McCarthy (Linus Roache) in Beirut the mid-1980s. Brian Keenan, from Belfast, was teaching English when he was captured, while journalist John McCarthy had just filed a ..read more »
55%
from 2,185 members
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Eroica
(2003)
Starring: Revolutionnaire Et Romantique Orch, Anton Lesser, Jack Davenport
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
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By the time the first public performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ('Eroica') took place in Vienna in 1805, a privileged few had already heard the work at a private play-through at the Lobkowitz Palace in June 1804. This release brings to life the momentous day that prompted Haydn to remark '..read more »
64%
from 119 members
Not available for rental
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Cheeky
(2003)
Starring: Lesley Sharpe, Johnny Vegas, Sean Ward
Director: David Thewlis
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British comedy written, directed by and starring David Thewlis. The simple lives of toyshop owner Harry Sankey (Thewlis) and his son Sam (Sean Ward) are thrown upside down by the tragic death of their beloved wife and mother, Nancy (Lisa Gorman). Believing it to be his wife's last wish, Sankey ..read more »
55%
from 102 members
Not available for rental
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Hound Of The Baskervilles
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: John Nettles, Richard E. Grant, Richard Roxburgh
Director: David Attwood
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Adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes thriller, first shown as part of the BBC Christmas line-up in 2002. Holmes (Richard Roxburgh) is called in when Sir Charles Baskerville seemingly falls prey to the family curse: a hell-hound which is said to haunt the moors of Devon. However, rather than ..read more »
62%
from 872 members
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Strictly Sinatra
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Peter Capaldi
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Toni Cocozza (Ian Hart) is a young Sinatra impersonator struggling to make ends meet on the Glasgow nightclub circuit. One night he makes an impression on the wife of a local crime boss and gets an invitation to perform at a nearby casino. Toni is glad of the fresh opportunity, and hopes that his ..read more »
52%
from 188 members
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Best
(2000)
Starring: Sophie Dahl, Jerome Flynn, Roger Daltrey
Director: Mary McGuckian
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This footballing biopic charts the rise and fall of one of the game's most feted players: Manchester United's talismanic midfielder George Best. Joining the club in the wake of the Munich air disaster, Best (John Lynch) was instrumental in the reconstruction of the team in the late Sixties, helping ..read more »
47%
from 159 members
Currently unavailable
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Liam
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Anthony Burrows, Claire Hackett, Anne Reid
Director: Stephen Frears
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The story of a 7-year-old boy growing up in 1930s Liverpool. Liam's father works at the local shipyard, while his mother keeps the household afloat, pinching pennies, yet keeping spirits high. Life takes a terrible turn when the shipyard closes and Dad loses his job. Humiliated by the fact that his ..read more »
61%
from 426 members
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Born Romantic
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: David Morrissey, Olivia Willi, Olivia Williams
Director: David Kane
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Three men in London are on the hunt for three women: Fergus (David Morrissey) wants to find his ex-fiancée (Jane Horrocks) whom he jilted at the altar eight years ago; Frankie (Craig Ferguson) still lives with his ex-wife but has his heart set on Eleanor (Olivia Williams); and Eddie is an ex-con ..read more »
59%
from 565 members
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The Closer You Get
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Risteard Cooper, Sean McGinley, Cathleen Bradley
Director: Aileen Ritchie
Certificate:
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A group of bachelor boys from a small Irish village place an advert in the Miami Herald inviting women in their early twenties to come and live with them. Very soon the whole village knows about the advert; the women of the village begin to look at themselves more closely and then start showing the ..read more »
58%
from 476 members
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Longitude
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Samuel West, Peter Vaughan
Director: Charles Sturridge
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In 1714 Parliament offer a £20,000 prize for anyone who can provide an accurate means of measuring longitude at sea. John Harrison (Michael Gambon) flies in the face of popular opinion by saying that the stars do not provide the answer, and provides his own solution with the invention of a ..read more »
74%
from 1,686 member
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The End of the Affair
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: James Bolam, Jason Isaacs, Sam Bould
Director: Neil Jordan
Certificate:
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In 1946, novelist Maurice Bendix (Ralph Fiennes) encounters civil servant Henry Miles (Stephen Rea) on Clapham Common, and recalls how years earlier he had a passionate affair with Henry's wife, Sarah (Julianne Moore), which ended suddenly and without explanation. Henry was unaware of the affair at ..read more »
63%
from 6,256 members
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This Year's Love
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Dougray Scott, David Gray, Jennifer Ehle
Director: David Kane
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Tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Henshaw) and Hannah (Catherine McCormack) break up on the most inappropriate occasion - their wedding day. Thrown back into life in the single lane, the next few years provide the estranged couple with a number of new partners, including pub singer Marey (Kathy Burke), ..read more »
58%
from 4,468 members
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Noose
(1998)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Famke Janssen, Colm Meaney
Director: Ted Demme
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Bobby O'Grady (Denis Leary) is a small-time thief who lives in Boston's Charlestown. The neighbourhood is ruled over by gangster Jackie O'Hara, who commits robbery and murder safe in the knowledge that no-one will ever breathe a word against him. That is, until Bobby's cousin arrives from Dublin ..read more »
49%
from 150 members
Currently unavailable
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Gold In The Streets
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: James Belushi, Andrea Irvine, Jared Harris
Director: Elizabeth Gill
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When Irishman Liam (Karl Geary) arrives in New York in search of distant relative Seamus, he ends up talking to bartender Mario (James Belushi). Seamus has long since departed for Hawaii, but Mario introduces Liam to fellow Irishman Owen (Jared Harris), with whom he finds lodgings. Dodging the ..read more »
53%
from 22 members
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Nothing Personal
(1995)
Starring: Gary Lydon, James Frain, John Lynch
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
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When an IRA bomb blows up a Belfast pub in 1975, it threatens the ceasefire being negotiated by Loyalist and Republican leaders. Gang leader Kenny (James Frain) wants revenge, and thanks to psychotic foot-soldier Ginger (Ian Hart) it seems that violence is inevitable. But if this is the way they ..read more »
59%
from 191 members
Currently unavailable
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Land And Freedom
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Icíar Bollaín, Rosana Pastor, Ian Hart
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach's moving story of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. The fascist General Franco is trying to take control of the country from the recently elected democratic government and the republican loyalists form whatever army they can to stop the uprising. In Liverpool, David, an unemployed man, ..read more »
70%
from 4,345 members
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Clockwork Mice
(1995)
Starring: John Alderton, Ruaidhri Conroy, Claire Skinner
Director: Jean Vadim
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The relationship between Conrad (Rhuaidhri Conroy), a young boy with a troubled past, and his young, idealistic teacher Steve (Ian Hart) is examined in this highly regarded British film. In the space of a year Steve realises that he has become a friend, inspiration and hope to all the teachers and ..read more »
72%
from 107 members
Not available for rental
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Backbeat
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Sheryl Lee, Stephen Dorff, Ian Hart
Director: Iain Softley
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The Beatles' early days as a struggling bar band are depicted in this fact-based drama, which tells the little-known story of original member Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff). A close friend of John Lennon, Sutcliffe acts as the band's original bassist, accompanying them on their early gigs in ..read more »
67%
from 1,222 member
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Ian Hart facts
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... Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Griffiths, John Hurt, David Bradley and Ian Hart all being outstanding whilst the children in the leads arent bad either.
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