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Helena Bonham-Carter
Helena Bonham-Carter was born in London to a psychotherapist and a banker. She went to an all girls school and did very well, however was denied entry to Kings College in Cambridge because they didn't want her to up and leave to pursue her acting career.
Her first professional acting role was in a television advert at the age of 16, she also had a role in a small TV film called 'A Pattern Of Roses'.
After starring as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With A View, she has gone on to play many roles; which she has had a great deal of acclaim for. She is now known for her role in 'The King's Speech' as the Queen Mother, and got nominated for an Academy Award.
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Great acting and lots of think about 18 June 2012
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Beyond disappointing 20 July 2009
Helena Bonham-Carter - filmography
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine
Director: Mike Newell
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Director Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Young orphan Pip (Toby Irvine) finds his life changed forever soon after encountering and lending assistance to escaped convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) on the marshlands near his home. Later, after being summoned to attend the ..read more »
 
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Les Miserables - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Colm Wilkinson, Sacha Baron Cohen, George Blagden
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate: 
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.
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Les Miserables
(2012)
Starring: Colm Wilkinson, Sacha Baron Cohen, George Blagden
Director: Tom Hooper
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In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.
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from 758 members
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Toast
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Selina Cadell, Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Slater
Director: S.J. Clarkson
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Feature-length BBC comedy drama based on the memoirs of food writer and broadcaster Nigel Slater. In 1950s Wolverhampton, nine-year-old Nigel (Freddie Highmore) is left with his distant father (Ken Stott) and new housekeeper Joan Potter (Helena Bonham Carter) after the death of his adored mother (..read more »
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from 1,257 member
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The King's Speech - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
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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 »
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from 18,978 members
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The King's Speech
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
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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 »
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from 62,190 members
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Terminator - Salvation - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: , ,
Director: McG
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Fourth film in the hugely popular 'Terminator' franchise. The film is set in 2018 in a post-apocalyptic world where the human race is at war with Skynet and its army of deadly Terminators. John Connor (Christian Bale) is a young soldier who is destined to become the leader of the human resistance. ..read more »
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from 17,056 members
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Terminator - Salvation
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: , ,
Director: McG
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Fourth film in the hugely popular 'Terminator' franchise. The film is set in 2018 in a post-apocalyptic world where the human race is at war with Skynet and its army of deadly Terminators. John Connor (Christian Bale) is a young soldier who is destined to become the leader of the human resistance. ..read more »
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from 58,748 members
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Enid
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Denis Lawson, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: James Hawes
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Helena Bonham Carter stars in this feature-length BBC biopic as children's author Enid Blyton. An astoundingly prolific writer revered by an adoring readership, Blyton was, in her personal life, a self-absorbed, ruthlessly ambitious woman who manipulated those close to her for her own advantage. ..read more »
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from 110 members
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Sixty Six
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Stephen Greif, Daniel Dresner, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Paul Weiland
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Coming-of-age comedy starring Greg Sulkin and Helena Bonham Carter. It is the summer of 1966, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12-year-old Bernie (Sulkin), the biggest day of his life is looming - his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. However, Bernie's family are ..read more »
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from 6,073 members
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Michael Gough, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
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Animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th century European village, the film follows the story of Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (..read more »
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from 2,991 members
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Anna Sophia Robb, Noah Taylor, David Kelly
Director: Tim Burton
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Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home, ..read more »
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from 94,348 members
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Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Robert Guilla, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's fantasy-drama is based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and adapted for the screen by John August. A dying Edward Bloom (Albert Finney as the old man and Ewan McGregor as the younger) has always had a willing audience to hear the amazing tales from his travels around the world in his ..read more »
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from 48,545 members
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Henry VIII
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Mark Strong, Ray Winstone, Charles Dance
Director: Pete Travis
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Ray Winstone brings history's most beguiling monarch to life in this story of Henry VIII revealing the destruction Henry often left in his wake during his extraordinary 38 year reign. From the moment Henry Tudor casts aside his faithful wife Katherine of Aragon for the bewitching and determined ..read more »
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from 2,086 members
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Big Fish - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Robert Guilla, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's fantasy-drama is based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and adapted for the screen by John August. A dying Edward Bloom (Albert Finney as the old man and Ewan McGregor as the younger) has always had a willing audience to hear the amazing tales from his travels around the world in his ..read more »
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from 2,749 members
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The Heart Of Me
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Olivia Williams, Luke Newberry, Rosie Ede
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
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Opening in late 1930s London prim and proper Madeleine (Olivia Williams) and free-spirited artist Dinah (Helena Bonham Carter) are attending the funeral of their father. A love triangle begins when Madeline's (Williams) husband, Rickie (Paul Bettany) falls for Dinah (Carter). Ten years later the ..read more »
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from 1,401 member
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Planet Of The Apes
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Luke Eberl, Michael Clarke Duncan
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's 're-imagining' of the 1968 sci-fi classic.The year is 2029, and Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is aboard a spaceship trying to teach apes how to become space pilots. During a routine reconnaissance mission outside the mothership, Leo is sucked into a space-time hole and minutes ..read more »
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from 12,073 members
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Novocaine
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Keith David, Lynn Thigpen, Steve Martin
Director: David Atkins
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Dr Frank Sangster (Steve Martin) is a dentist with a successful practice, a luxurious home and a beautiful girlfriend (Laura Dern). In fact, he seems to have everything that anyone could ever wish for. But when he receives a visit from a seductive new client (Helena Bonham Carter), the good doctor ..read more »
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Fight Club - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Richmond Arquette
Director: David Fincher
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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
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from 3,169 members
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Fight Club
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Richmond Arquette
Director: David Fincher
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Adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, David Fincher's controversial drama explores themes of masculinity and violence in contemporary society. Edward Norton stars as Jack, a bored insomniac, determined to inject some excitement into his life. He meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charismatic soap ..read more »
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Merlin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Lena Headey, Sam Neill
Director: Steve Barron
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Many years ago, in a time when the Old Ways of magic were waning, evil sorceress Mab (Miranda Richardson) summoned mighty wizard Merlin (Sam Neill) into existence, giving him the power of her dark enchantments. When Merlin fell in love with the innocent Nimue (Isabella Rossellini), Mab allowed them ..read more »
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from 2,247 members
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The Wings of the Dove
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Georgio Serafini, Philip Wright, Alison Elliott
Director: Iain Softley
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Helena Bonham-Carter stars in this adaptation of the Henry James novel. Kate (Bonham-Carter) is in love with penniless journalist Merton (Linus Roache). If she marries him, she will have to give up her inheritance and live in poverty. Unwilling to do this, she persuades Merton to romance the dying ..read more »
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from 2,508 members
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The Wings of the Dove - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Georgio Serafini, Philip Wright, Alison Elliott
Director: Iain Softley
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Helena Bonham-Carter stars in this adaptation of the Henry James novel. Kate (Bonham-Carter) is in love with penniless journalist Merton (Linus Roache). If she marries him, she will have to give up her inheritance and live in poverty. Unwilling to do this, she persuades Merton to romance the dying ..read more »
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Keep The Aspidistra Flying
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Robert Bierman
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Successful copywriter Gordon Cromstock (Richard E. Grant) shuns an offer of promotion and gives up his job to become a poet. His girlfriend, graphic artist Rosemary (Helena Bonham-Carter), cannot understand Cromstock's determination to embrace poverty, nor his obsession with the aspidistra as a ..read more »
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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 »
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Margaret's Museum
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Clive Russell, Helena Bonham-Carter, Kate Nelligan
Director: Mort Ransen
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On Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in the 1940s, Margaret MacNeil (Helena Bonham-Carter) has resolved to have nothing more to do with miners after the pit claimed the lives of both her father and elder brother. She is charmed, however, by Neil Currie (Clive Russell), an ex-miner who washes dishes ..read more »
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from 157 members
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Mighty Aphrodite
(1995)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Woody Allen, M
Director: Woody Allen
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A dissatisfied Manhattan sportswriter finds more than he expected when he searches for the biological mother of his adopted child in Woody Allen's comedy. Writer-director Allen also plays Lenny, a slightly more relaxed incarnation of his usual neurotic screen persona. Lenny is trapped in a bad ..read more »
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Richard Briers, John Cleese
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh stars in and directs this adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror yarn. Obsessed with creating life, Victor Frankenstein (Branagh) harnesses the power of electricity in order to reanimate the body of a once-dead criminal (Robert De Niro). When he then witnesses the abhorrence of ..read more »
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Howard's End
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Samuel West
Director: James Ivory
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One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is poor relation Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of ..read more »
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Where Angels Fear To Tread
(1991)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Judy Davis, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Edwardian period piece in which an English widow (Helen Mirren) goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes. When she dies during childbirth, a brother- and sister-in-law are dispatched to fetch back the baby. With Helena Bonham Carter, ..read more »
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father ..read more »
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Getting it Right
(1989)
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ..read more »
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Maurice
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: James Wilby, Patrick Godfrey, Ben Kingsley
Director: James Ivory
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At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two ..read more »
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A Hazard Of Hearts
(1987)
Starring: Gareth Hunt, Edward Fox, Neil Dickson
Director: John Hough
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Helena Bonham Carter stars as the beautiful Serena Staverley in this adaptation of Barbara Cartland's romantic novel. One night, betting against the debauched Lord Wrotham (Edward Fox), Serena's gambling addicted father (Christopher Plummer) stakes Serena's hand in marriage on the outcome of a game ..read more »
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Lady Jane
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Jane Lapotaire, John Wood
Director: Trevor Nunn
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Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of death himself. The Protestant powers-that-be, ..read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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Children's Classical Collection - Peter ...
on DVD
Starring: Richard Briers, Helena Bonham-Carter
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Five children's animated cartoons set to the music of the great classical composers. Includes 'Peter and the Wolf' by Prokofiev, 'The Toy Symphony' by Mozart, and 'Swan Lake', 'The Nutcracker' and 'Sleeping Beauty' by Tchaikovsky. Narrated by Richard Briers and Helena Bonham-Carter.
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... audience, but I found it intelligent and interesting. Ed Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham-Carter are all terrific. It's true that you'll enjoy the film even more the second tim...
