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Eileen Atkins
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Eileen Atkins - what members say
review by A customer from Lisburn, County Antrim
Simply superb 16 February 2008
review by maytrees from London
London RomCom with a difference 6 June 2009
review by TheDramaMeister from Gainsborough
Sheer Genius 11 August 2009
Eileen Atkins - filmography
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Wild Target
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Certificate: 
Bill Nighy is Victor Maynard, a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (..read more »
 
68%
from 7,040 members
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Wild Target - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Rupert Everett, Bill Nighy
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Certificate:
A gorgeous con-artist sells a fake painting to a powerful gangster, and discovers that crime doesn't pay when her unsatisfied customer hires Europe's top assassin to take her out. But the moment Victor (Bill Nighy) gets Rose (Emily Blunt) in his crosshairs, he hesitates. The situation grows tense ..read more »
68%
from 58 members
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Upstairs Downstairs
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Keeley Hawes, Ed Stoppard, Anne Reid
Director: Eros Lyn, Saul Metzstein
Certificate: 
One of the most loved television series is brought back to life with a stellar cast, sumptuous production values and gripping storylines, lifting the curtain on a historical era.
In the summer of 1930, the Bellamy family left its home in London's Belgravia forever. In the empty house, loyal ..read more »
76%
from 542 members
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Psychoville - Season 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Amanda Abbington, George Asprey, Eileen Atkins
Director: Matt Lipsey
Certificate: 
From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen, this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'.
An embittered hook-handed clown, a desperately ..read more »
76%
from 1,432 member
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Last Chance Harvey
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins
Director: Joel Hopkins
Certificate:
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else...read more »
65%
from 16,651 members
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Psychoville - Season 1- Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2009)
Starring: Reece Shearsmith, Dawn French, David Bamber
Director: Matt Lipsey
Certificate:
From the creators of cult classic television series THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMAN comes this surreal comedy that centres on a letter writer who contacts five seemingly disparate characters' misguided wife, a hook-handed entertainer, a dwarf with telekinetic powers, a murder-fixated manchild and a blind ..read more »
72%
from 940 members
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Last Chance Harvey - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker
Director: Joel Hopkins
Certificate:
Set in London, this romantic comedy stars Dustin Hoffman as Harvey Shine, a divorced and haggard jingle-writer quickly aging out of his career and workaholic ways. With a warning from his boss (Richard Schiff) to not bother rushing back, Harvey goes to London, begrudgingly, for his daughter's ..read more »
65%
from 2,199 members
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Evening
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Lajos Koltai
Certificate:
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
57%
from 5,274 members
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Cranford - Complete BBC Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
Certificate: 
This is the DVD of the lavish BBC costume drama, Cranford, based on three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels including Cranford itself. The cast boasts some of Britain's best-loved and most experienced actresses, including Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis. The ..read more »
84%
from 3,021 members
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Cranford - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
Certificate:
Set in a 1840s Cranford - a small, idyllic Northern English town - where the residents are coping with a sea of change that includes a new railway network that threatens to unleash a tide of immigrant workers that the locals fear will reduce their town to lawlessness...
78%
from 222 members
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Ballet Shoes
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Marc Warren, Lucy Boynton, Eileen Atkins
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
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"We three Fossils vow to put our name in the history books, because it is ours, and ours alone, and nobody can say it's because of our grandfathers". With these words, three orphans embark on an exhilarating journey through the world of show business... Set in 1930s London, Ballet Shoes tells ..read more »
72%
from 1,874 member
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Ask The Dust
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland
Director: Robert Towne
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In the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, Hayek plays the fiery Mexican beauty Camilla who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. This is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing ..read more »
49%
from 1,666 member
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Scenes Of A Sexual Nature
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ed Blum
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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick, and it seems that ..read more »
52%
from 11,437 members
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What a Girl Wants
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston
Director: Dennie Gordon
Certificate:
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A Coming-of-Age Comedy...
...Daphne a spirited young American girl, travels to London in search of her long-lost father, an influential aristocratic politician. As Daphne attempts to prove that love can conquer all, her impulsive behaviour creates an uproar in high society.
64%
from 9,275 members
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Cold Mountain
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
65%
from 47,936 members
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Cold Mountain - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
70%
from 91 members
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Bertie And Elizabeth
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates
Director: Giles Foster
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A portrayal of the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, focusing on her courtship with the future George VI, the abdication crisis, the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret and the war years finally leading to Bertie's early death in 1952.
63%
from 289 members
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Madame Bovary
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins
Director: Tim Fywell
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The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-..read more »
58%
from 1,136 member
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Jack And Sarah
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench
Director: Tim Sullivan
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In this charming British romantic comedy, Jack (Richard E, Grant), a recently widowed father, quickly learns that his yuppie lifestyle and workaholic ways don't mesh too well with a new baby's needs. Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of caring for his infant daughter, he hires Amy (Samantha ..read more »
69%
from 6,820 members
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Let Him Have It
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell
Director: Peter Medak
Certificate:
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Two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. One, epileptic with the mental age of 11 and IQ of 66 is arrested, the other, a gun-toting hood refuses to give up his weapon. Shouting Let Him Have It! to his friend, he fires, wounding one officer and killing another. Both boys face the ..read more »
69%
from 1,442 member
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Titus Andronicus
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Trevor Peacock, Eileen Atkins, Edward Hardwicke
Director: Jane Howell
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Having subdued ..read more »
66%
from 143 members
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The Dresser
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
Director: Peter Yates
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THE DRESSER is Peter Yates' intriguing look behind the scenes of a touring stage company in war-torn England, based on Ronald Harwood's play. Albert Finney stars as Sir, the ageing manager and lead actor of the troupe who begins to come undone from the pressure of touring in bombed-ravaged England. ..read more »
68%
from 977 members
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Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins
Director: Simon Langton
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John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
80%
from 3,493 members
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Equus
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer's dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of ..read more »
63%
from 1,173 member
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Eileen Atkins facts
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...ce is less than faultless, I have to mention the unforgettable contributions of Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis, Judy Dench, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie a...
