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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
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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
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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
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An Excellent Drama 26 July 2004
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First-Class Performances 22 November 2005
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Best. Film. Ever. 10 April 2006
Geoffrey Rush - filmography
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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 »
 
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: 
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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 »
83%
from 18,973 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 »
69%
from 4,732 members
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The King's Speech
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
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 »
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: 
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 »
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:
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 »
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
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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 »
55%
from 84 members
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Candy - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Tom Budge, Tony Martin, Roberto Meza-Mont
Director: Neil Armfield
Certificate:
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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 »
62%
from 302 members
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Candy
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Neil Armfield
Certificate:
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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.
59%
from 6,631 members
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Munich
(2005)
Starring: Arthur Chazal, Mathieu Amalric, Ziad Adwan
Director: Steven Spielberg
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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 »
66%
from 62,620 members
Currently unavailable
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Ned Kelly - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts
Director: Gregor Jordan
Certificate:
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 »
64%
from 25 members
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Swimming Upstream
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Tim Draxl, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Certificate:
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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 »
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:
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 »
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
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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 »
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:
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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 »
68%
from 94 members
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The Banger Sisters
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Robin Thomas, Matthew Carey
Director: Bob Dolman
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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 »
55%
from 3,566 members
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Frida
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Salma Hayek, Geoffrey Rush, Alfred Molina
Director: Julie Taymor
Certificate:
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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 »
71%
from 15,947 members
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Lantana
(2001)
Starring: Rachael Blake, Barbara Hershey, Anthony La Paglia
Director: Ray Lawrence
Certificate:
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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 »
66%
from 8,071 members
Currently unavailable
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The Tailor of Panama
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack
Director: John Boorman
Certificate:
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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 »
56%
from 2,320 members
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Quills
(2000)
Starring: Stephen Moyer, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet
Director: Philip Kaufman
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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 »
61%
from 7,114 members
Currently unavailable
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The Magic Pudding
(2000)
Starring: Sam Neill, John Cleese, Toni Collette
Director: Karl Zwicky
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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 »
55%
from 27 members
Currently unavailable
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House on Haunted Hill
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Lisa Loeb, Ali Larter, Famke Janssen
Director: William Malone
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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 »
58%
from 7,580 members
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Les Miserables
(1998)
Starring: Bill Thurman, Liam Neeson, Claire Danes
Director: Bille August
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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 »
69%
from 1,831 member
Currently unavailable
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Elizabeth - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, James Frain, Vincent Cassel
Director: Shekhar Kapur
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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 »
75%
from 205 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 32,174 members
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Les Miserables - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Bill Thurman, Liam Neeson, Claire Danes
Director: Bille August
Certificate:
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 »
64%
from 75 members
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Elizabeth
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, James Frain, Vincent Cassel
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Certificate:
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 »
73%
from 19,437 members
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Shine
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Noah Taylor, Alex Rafalowicz, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: Scott Hicks
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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 »
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: 
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 »
54%
from 18 members
Currently unavailable
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Dad And Dave: On Our Selection
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Essie Davis, Ray Barrett, Noah Taylor
Director: George Whaley
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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 »
47%
from 69 members
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