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  • Rush gets green light for Green Lantern - 31 March 2011
    -Aussie movie star Geoffrey Rush has signed up add his voice to the new Green Lantern movie-The King's Speech star will portray TomarRe, the alien who teaches the new Lantern, Ryan Reynolds, how to use his new powers.- Rush won't actually appear in the film - the char


  • Firth thrills Rush with Oscars coin gift - 1 March 2011
    -Oscar winner Colin Firth left The King's Speech co-star Geoffrey Rush stunned on the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday (27Feb11) with a very special gift.- -Both actors were nominated, and, while Firth was a clear favourite to win the Best Actor prize, Aussie star Ru


  • Rush feared The King's Speech would flop - 17 January 2011
    -Geoffrey Rush almost turned down a role in acclaimed new movie The King's Speech because he thought the film would be a major failure.- -The picture, starring Colin Firth as stuttering monarch King George VI, has opened to rave reviews and a series of high profile hon

Geoffrey Rush - what members say


  • Shine
  • Shine review by from Leicester
    Rated - 4.0 stars An Excellent Drama 26 July 2004
    ...bused but gifted boy. Harrowing at times but necessary for explaining the story.Geoffrey Rush is amazing so its well worth the rent just for that! Highly recommend a look, i...   Read customer review
  • Elizabeth
  • Elizabeth review by from Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars First-Class Performances 22 November 2005
    ... Macdonald (AKA 'Diane' from Train Spotting), has a well performed small role; Geoffrey Rush is flawless, every move delivers with precision; Christopher Eccleston (now kno...   Read customer review
  • Shakespeare In Love
  • Shakespeare In Love review by from Hertfordshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Best. Film. Ever. 10 April 2006
    ...om the likes of Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Dame Judi Dence, Tom Wilkinson and Geoffrey Rush. The plot weaves beautifully, keeping attention right up to the end. Different,...   Read customer review

Geoffrey Rush - filmography


  • Legend of the Guardians - The Owls of Ga... on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Emilie de Ravin,  Hugo Weaving,  Helen Mirren
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 11,852 members
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  • The King's Speech - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Geoffrey Rush,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The King's Speech is the tale of Elizabeth II's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. Fascinating, moving and often humourous it charts the personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King George VI, plagued by a nervous stammer, and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 18,973 members
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  • The King's Speech on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Geoffrey Rush,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The King's Speech is the tale of Elizabeth II's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. Fascinating, moving and often humourous it charts the personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King George VI, plagued by a nervous stammer, and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 62,183 members
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  • The Warrior's Way on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jang Dong-Gun,  Danny Huston,  Kate Bosworth
    Director: Sngmoo Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Special effects-laden fantasy action film starring Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush and Danny Huston. Skilled swordsman and assassin Yang (Jang) goes undercover in in the American badlands after failing in his last assignment. There he makes the acquaintance of a band of carnival workers,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,176 members
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  • The Warrior's Way - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Jang Dong-Gun,  Danny Huston,  Kate Bosworth
    Director: Sngmoo Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Special effects-laden fantasy action film starring Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush and Danny Huston. Skilled swordsman and assassin Yang (Jang) goes undercover in in the American badlands after failing in his last assignment. There he makes the acquaintance of a band of carnival workers,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,255 members
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  • Bran Nue Dae on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Geoffrey Rush,  Tom Budge,  Magda Szubanski
    Director: Rachel Perkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 84 members
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  • Candy - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Tom Budge,  Tony Martin,  Roberto Meza-Mont
    Director: Neil Armfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Gritty Australian drama starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush. A poet, Dan (Ledger), falls in love with art student Candy (Cornish), who gravitates towards his bohemian lifestyle - and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 302 members
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  • Candy on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Abbie Cornish,  Geoffrey Rush
    Director: Neil Armfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A poet (Ledger) falls in love with an art student (Cornish) who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,631 members
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  • Munich (2005)
    Starring: Arthur Chazal,  Mathieu Amalric,  Ziad Adwan
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Spielberg directs this tense and controversial thriller, following the actions of a team of Mossad agents dispatched by the Israeli government to seek revenge against the Palestinian terrorist organisation that funded and carried out the assassinations of eleven Israeli athletes during the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 62,620 members
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  • Ned Kelly - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Orlando Bloom,  Naomi Watts
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the latter part of the 19th century, Australia is still largely untamed. The former penal colony's first-generation Irish immigrant population lives in poverty. Having already experienced police brutality and the death of his father, bushranger Ned Kelly is wrongfully imprisoned on the trumped-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 25 members
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  • Swimming Upstream on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Tim Draxl,  Judy Davis,  Jesse Spencer
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Sporting drama starring Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis. As the target of his father Harold's (Rush) drunken abuse, young Tony Fingleton (Jesse Spencer) escapes to the underwater solitude of the local pool, where he aspires to win his father's love by becoming a national swimming champion. But when ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,171 members
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  • Ned Kelly on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Joel Egerton,  Naomi Watts
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the latter part of the 19th century, Australia is still largely untamed. The former penal colony's first-generation Irish immigrant population lives in poverty. Having already experienced police brutality and the death of his father, bushranger Ned Kelly is wrongfully imprisoned on the trumped-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 9,892 members
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  • Finding Nemo - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Albert Brooks,  Ellen DeGeneres,  Geoffrey Rush
    Director: Lee Unkrich,  Andrew Stanton
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Academy Award-winning animated film from the creators of 'Toy Story'. Motherless clownfish Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) is carried away from his home in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. His overprotective father, Marlin (Albert Brooks), and Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a friendly but forgetful regal ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 96% from 10 members
    Due for release on 27th May 2013
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  • Frida - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Salma Hayek,  Geoffrey Rush,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Julie Taymor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The film biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters - Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek). Having recovered from the crippling effects of polio, Kahlo is lucky to survive a city bus accident. Bed-ridden, she is able to produce many art pieces and, when she is fit again, she presents ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 94 members
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  • The Banger Sisters on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Goldie Hawn,  Robin Thomas,  Matthew Carey
    Director: Bob Dolman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Broke and down on her luck, Hollywood bartender Suzette (Goldie Hawn) decides to travel to Arizona to visit her old friend Lavinia (Susan Sarandon). Back in the 1970s the pair's exploits as rock groupies were legendary, but while Suzette has continued to live the rock lifestyle, Lavinia has settled ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 3,566 members
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  • Frida on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Salma Hayek,  Geoffrey Rush,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Julie Taymor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The life of artist Frida Kahlo--from her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband, Diego Rivera, to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative romantic entanglements with women, Frida lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 15,947 members
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  • Lantana (2001)
    Starring: Rachael Blake,  Barbara Hershey,  Anthony La Paglia
    Director: Ray Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    With complex relationships and believable characters, this intelligent well-acted film is more than another cop thriller. A Sydney police detective is having an affair while trying to solve a murder mystery. As it involves all the people in his life, he's forced to examine his future as a family ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,071 members
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  • The Tailor of Panama on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Brendan Gleeson,  Catherine McCormack
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) is a London tailor working in Panama, offering a high-quality service to many of the richest and most powerful families in the country. One day he is approached by British secret agent Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) and asked to supply information on some of his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,320 members
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  • Quills (2000)
    Starring: Stephen Moyer,  Kate Winslet,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Imprisoned in the Charenton asylum near Paris, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) continues to produce his notorious erotic writings. When he finishes his latest novel, 'Justine', the young chambermaid Madeleine (Kate Winslet) smuggles it out to be published. The authorities are shocked by the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,114 members
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  • The Magic Pudding (2000)
    Starring: Sam Neill,  John Cleese,  Toni Collette
    Director: Karl Zwicky
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Albert (voiced by John Cleese) is a magic pudding who can turn into any kind of pudding imaginable. However, his skill is very popular amongst the criminal fraternity and Albert is constantly having to run away from people trying to steal him. The most dangerous of the potential thieves is Buncle (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 27 members
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  • House on Haunted Hill on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Lisa Loeb,  Ali Larter,  Famke Janssen
    Director: William Malone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Decades after inmates at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane were killed during a revolt against the cruel regime, tycoon Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush) hires the building from its present owner, Watson Pritchett (Chris Kattan), in order to throw a ghoulish birthday party ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 7,580 members
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  • Les Miserables (1998)
    Starring: Bill Thurman,  Liam Neeson,  Claire Danes
    Director: Bille August
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In nineteenth century France, convict Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson) is paroled after nineteen years' hard labour in prison. He assumes a new identity, becoming a prosperous factory owner, but he is pursued by Javert (Geoffrey Rush), formerly a guard at Valjean's prison, who is obsessed with exposing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,831 member
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  • Shakespeare In Love on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Imelda Staunton,  Anthony Sher
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 32,174 members
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  • Les Miserables - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Bill Thurman,  Liam Neeson,  Claire Danes
    Director: Bille August
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In nineteenth century France, convict Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson) is paroled after nineteen years' hard labour in prison. He assumes a new identity, becoming a prosperous factory owner, but he is pursued by Javert (Geoffrey Rush), formerly a guard at Valjean's prison, who is obsessed with exposing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 75 members
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  • Elizabeth on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  James Frain,  Vincent Cassel
    Director: Shekhar Kapur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1554, England is ruled by the fervently Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke), whose persecution of Protestants even extends to her own half-sister, Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett). When Mary dies, Elizabeth succeeds to the throne, but finds her country under threat from the Scots, French and Spanish. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,437 members
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  • Shine on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Noah Taylor,  Alex Rafalowicz,  Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Director: Scott Hicks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as David Helfgott, a pianist with a history of mental problems. As a fragile boy genius at math, chess, and piano, David is driven ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 9,200 members
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  • Children of the Revolution (1996)
    Starring: Judy Davis,  Judy Davis,  Sam Neill
    Director: Peter Duncan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A blindly idealistic Australian Communist believes so fervently in the Revolution that she writes weekly love letters to Joseph Stalin, conceives his child (or so she believes), and raises a son in the tradition of iron-fisted tyranny. A scathing, idiosyncratic satire of ideological zealotry in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 18 members
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  • Dad And Dave: On Our Selection on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Essie Davis,  Ray Barrett,  Noah Taylor
    Director: George Whaley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Anecdotal Australian period comedy set in the early 1900s. Joseph Rudd (Leo McKern) and his family move to a rural 'selection' (small farm) in remote Queensland. Barren and desolate, the land yields only a meagre harvest despite the family's relentless toil, and the depressed market doesn't do much ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 69 members
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