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Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

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Richard E. Grant - what members say


  • Jack And Sarah
  • Jack And Sarah review by from Aberdeen, Scotland
    Rated - 4 stars Delightful, hearwarming story 20 May 2004
    ...Richard E. Grant is excellent as the man whose wife dies in childbirth, and is forced to look after his new daughter, eventually hiring a slightly useless American waitress as ...  
  • The Player
  • The Player review by A customer from Guilford
    Rated - 2 stars Snooze 19 May 2007
    ...n't light hearted; Fine. But it wasn't really all that darkly satirical either. Richard E. Grants scenes are all funny (well.....all three of them) and the spoof Hollywood movi...  
  • Withnail And I
  • Withnail And I review by from Essex
    Rated - 2 stars An after-the pub winner 11 March 2004
    ...ue - Withnail and I has plenty of these, most famously the tea-shop scene where Richard E. Grant loudly and inappropriately demands: "We want the finest wines available to Huma...  

Richard E. Grant - filmography


  • Filth and Wisdom (2008)
    Starring: Ade,  Gogol Bordello,  Olegar Fedoro
    Director: Madonna
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Andriy Krystiyan, or A K for short, has come to England from the Ukraine. A K is a philosopher (at least that's what he claims to be), a poet, and an authority on all aspects of life. At the same time, he is following his grand plan to become an international star. Global stardom is how A K ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 7 members
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  • Love Hurts on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Richard E. Grant,  Carrie-Anne Moss,  Jenna Elfman
    Director: Barra Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Complacent with his life, Ben Bingham finds his seemingly secure existent at breaking point when his wife walks out on him. While Ben is content to wallow in his self pity, his son Justin has other ideas and gives him a radical new makeover and the pair cut loose together on the social scene. Ben ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 10 members
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  • Freezing (2007)
    Starring: Joely Richardson,  Richard E. Grant,  Tom Hollander
    Director: Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Television comedy starring Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and Richard E. Grant. Elisabeth (McGovern) is an American Oscar-nominated actress who was discovered by Robert Redford. She's acted in numerous successful films with stars like Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Robert de Niro. That was then. Now ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 10 members
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  • Color Me Kubrick (2007)
    Starring: John Malkovich,  Jim Davidson,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Brian W. Cook
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    John Malkovich delivers a charming performance as Alan Conway, a man who cons people into believing he's the famed director Stanley Kubrick. Despite lacking knowledge about the director's work, Conway manages to succeed as imposter for nearly the entire last decade of the actual man's life.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10 members
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  • Penelope on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Christina Ricci,  James McAvoy,  Catherine O'Hara
    Director: Mark Palansky
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Like Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and the TV show PUSHING DAISIES, PENELOPE is a modern fairy tale, complete with candy colours and whimsical cinematography. PENELOPE begins with a generations-old curse by a jilted lover: the next girl in the aristocratic Wilhern family will be born with a pig'..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 20,534 members
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  • Wah-Wah on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Emily Watson,  Julie Walters
    Director: Richard E. Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A 14-year-old British boy returns to his home in colonial Swaziland to find that his father has remarried a free-spirited American woman that he has known for six weeks. A semi-autobiographical coming of age story by actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), WAH-WAH is set in the late 1960s in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 7,441 members
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  • Tooth on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Harry Enfield,  Vinnie Jones,  Stephen Fry
    Director: Edouard Nammour
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A star-studded cast make up this British fairy tale comedy. The story follows the adventures of Tooth, a mischievous fairy who has become fed up with the way most of the other fairies have forgotten how to use their magical powers. After stirring things up, her plans go wrong by making Fairytopia ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 2,961 members
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  • Monsieur N on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Philippe Torreton,  Richard E. Grant,  Jay Rodan
    Director: Antoine De Caunes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    On a snowy winter's day in Paris in December 1840, a body is returned and exhumed in a large, official ceremony. France's famous former ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, has died, and these are his remains, supposedly. Antoine de Caunes's MONSIEUR N offers a fictitious mystery in the retelling of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 148 members
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  • Gosford Park on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Michael Gambon,  Stephen Fry,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 14,506 members
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  • The Little Vampire on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jonathan Lipnicki,  Richard E. Grant,  Jim Carter
    Director: Uli Edel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Tony Thompson (Jonathan Lipnicki) is a nine-year-old boy who has just moved to Scotland with his family. Tony is having trouble making friends at his new school, and he has strange dreams about vampires every night. One night a bat flies into Tony's room--a bat that then turns into Rudolph, a young ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,362 member
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  • Spiceworld The Movie on DVD (1997)
    Starring: The Spice Girls,  Richard E. Grant,  Roger Moore
    Director: Bob Spiers
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the reasons that the Spice Girls remain so much fun is that in the great British tradition, they don't take themselves too seriously. Like The Beatles before them, the girls are more than happy to take pot-shots at their own manufactured image, something that Spiceworld: The Movie revels in. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 818 members
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  • Pret A Porter on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Tim Robbins,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,325 member
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  • Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993)
    Starring: Richard E. Grant,  Crispin Letts
    Director: Peter Capaldi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A collection of four clever and unique short films. "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life" is the Oscar-winning combination of Kafka and Capra, as the author of "The Metamorphosis" struggles with writers' block and learns the true meaning of Christmas. "Seven Gates" is the story of a pair of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11 members
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  • The Player on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Whoopi Goldberg
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,715 members
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  • Bram Stoker's Dracula on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Winona Ryder,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This sumptuous, erotic film is a faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel. In 1897 London, Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) leaves fiancee Mina (Winona Ryder) and journeys to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula (Gary Oldman). While keeping Jonathan a prisoner in his castle, Dracula travels ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 10,973 members
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  • Hudson Hawk on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Richard E. Grant,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Michael Lehmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has done his time. The infamous cat burglar is released from prison and plans to pursue an honest life. Some of his cronies, however, feel differently and coerce him back into a life of crime. With his best friend, Tommy Five-Tune (Danny Aiello), in tow, Hawk finds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,898 members
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  • L.A. Story on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Victoria Tennant,  Sarah Jessica Parker
    Director: Mick Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this gentle send-up of life in L.A., a TV weatherman stuck in an unfulfilling relationship and embarrassing job receives a mysterious message from a freeway sign saying the weather will change his life. Soon his life is turned upside down--he loses his job, his agent, his girlfriend, and his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,131 members
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  • Killing Dad on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Julie Walters,  Denholm Elliott,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Michael Austin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Elliott (Richard E. Grant) sets out to protect his beloved mother after she receives a letter from her estranged husband and Elliott's dad, begging for forgiveness. Elliott makes his way down to the Essex Coast in the hope of bumping his dad off, but finds him living an altogether different life ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 159 members
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  • Mountains Of The Moon on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Patrick Bergin,  Iain Glen,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Bob Rafelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In director Bob Rafelson's MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON, Richard Francis Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen), two of history's most remarkable adventurers, set out to Africa in 1854 to find the mysterious source of the Nile River, their expedition supported by the Royal Geographic ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 330 members
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  • Withnail And I on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Richard E. Grant,  Richard Griffiths
    Director: Bruce Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 27,074 members
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Richard E. Grant - watch online


  • Love Hurts to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Richard E. Grant,  Carrie-Anne Moss,  Jenna Elfman
    Director: Barra Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 91 minutes
    From the producer of the classic 'Don Juan De Marco', comes a comedy that asks: if love is the answer, could you rephrase the question!? Ben Bingham has slipped into the complacency of a daily routine, unlike his vibrant wife Amanda. When she finally leaves him, Ben is at a loss. He refuses to get ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Wah-Wah to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Emily Watson,  Julie Walters
    Director: Richard E. Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 95 minutes
    WAH-WAH is a semi-autobiographical 'coming of age at the end of an Age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 10 members
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  • Monsieur N to Watch Now (2004)
    Starring: Philippe Torreton,  Richard E. Grant,  Jay Rodan
    Director: Antoine De Caunes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 124 minutes
    How can Napoleon, the man of war and pioneering military strategist, meekly accept being locked up on a storm-lashed rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? What system of defence, and thus of attack, can he dream up to loosen his jailers' grip? On Saint Helena, the far-flung island chosen by his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • The Player to Watch Now (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Fred Ward
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 119 minutes
    Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 34 members
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Richard E. Grant facts

5 most recent films

Filth and Wisdom - 3.0 stars
Love Hurts - 3.0 stars
Freezing - 3.5 stars
Color Me Kubrick - 3.5 stars
Penelope - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Withnail And I - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution Volumes 1-4 - 4.0 stars
Scarlet Pimpernel, The - Series 1 - 3.5 stars
Scarlet Pimpernel, The - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Withnail And I - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Making Of A Film Idol - 3.0 stars
Filth and Wisdom - 3.0 stars
Love Hurts - 3.0 stars
Color Me Kubrick - 3.5 stars
Freezing - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Emily Watson - 6 times - show films
Helena Bonham-Carter - 5 times - show films
Michael Gough - 4 times - show films
Danny Elfman - 3 times - show films
Greta Scacchi - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Altman - 4 times - show films
Mike Johnson - 3 times - show films
Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Bruce Robinson - 3 times - show films
Antoine De Caunes - 2 times - show films