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Richard E. Grant
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Richard E. Grant - what members say
review by from Aberdeen, Scotland
Delightful, hearwarming story 20 May 2004
review by A customer from Guilford
Snooze 19 May 2007
review by from Essex
An after-the pub winner 11 March 2004
Richard E. Grant - filmography
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The Iron Lady - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Certificate: 
Two-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep steps into the role of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in this biopic from director Phyllida Lloyd (MAMMA MIA!), and screenwriter Abi Morgan (TSUNAMI: THE AFTERMATH, BRICK LANE). Lloyd depicts the elderly Dame Thatcher replaying key moments in her life, ..read more »
 
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from 64 members
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Foster
(2011)
Starring: Maurice Cole, Toni Collette, Ioan Gruffudd
Director: Jonathan Newman
Certificate: 
Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrison's lives are turned upside down when a 7 year old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.
90%
from 4 members
Due for release on 13th August 2012
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First Night
(2011)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Edyta Budnik
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Richard E. Grant stars as rich industrialist and frustrated amateur opera singer, Adam, in this musical comedy-drama. Adam decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat, partly to impress his friends, but mainly to win the heart of a female conductor (played by classical music star Sarah ..read more »
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from 12 members
Due for release on 11th June 2012
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First Night - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Edyta Budnik
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Richard E. Grant stars as rich industrialist and frustrated amateur opera singer, Adam, in this musical comedy-drama. Adam decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat, partly to impress his friends, but mainly to win the heart of a female conductor (played by classical music star Sarah ..read more »
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from 4 members
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How To Stop Being A Loser
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Billy Murray, Dominic Burns, Richard E. Grant
Director: Dominic Burns
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How To Stop Being a Loser tells the story of a hapless single man called James (Simon Phillips) whoÂ’s luck appears to change when he meets romance guru Ampersand (Craig Conway)... but is Ampersand all he appears to be? And does James actually know what he wants. Hilarious chaos ensues in this ..read more »
36%
from 89 members
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The Nutcracker
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Hunyadi Aron, Pepe Balderrama, Jonathan Coyne
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
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1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a ..read more »
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from 94 members
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Cuckoo - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Laura Fraser, Richard E. Grant, Antonia Bernath
Director: Richard Bracewell
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In one of his darkest roles, Richard E. Grant plays an ageing professor obsessed with his star student, Polly (Fraser). Polly is trapped in a dead-end job working for intrusive Professor Julius Greengrass (Grant). Her relationship with boyfriend Chapman (Adam Fenton) is falling apart, and jealous ..read more »
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from 116 members
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Cuckoo
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Laura Fraser, Richard E. Grant, Antonia Bernath
Director: Richard Bracewell
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In one of his darkest roles, Richard E. Grant plays an ageing professor obsessed with his star student, Polly (Fraser). Polly is trapped in a dead-end job working for intrusive Professor Julius Greengrass (Grant). Her relationship with boyfriend Chapman (Adam Fenton) is falling apart, and jealous ..read more »
35%
from 197 members
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Filth and Wisdom
(2008)
Starring: Ade, Gogol Bordello, Olegar Fedoro
Director: Madonna
Certificate: 
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 »
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from 15 members
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Love Hurts
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jenna Elfman
Director: Barra Grant
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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 »
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from 1,052 member
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Freezing
(2007)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Tom Riley
Director: Simon Curtis
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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 »
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from 20 members
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Color Me Kubrick
(2007)
Starring: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant
Director: Brian W. Cook
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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.
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from 18 members
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Penelope
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Mark Palansky
Certificate: 
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 »
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from 24,989 members
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Wah-Wah
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie Walters
Director: Richard E. Grant
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
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 »
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from 8,722 members
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
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In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
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from 544 members
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The Making Of A Film Idol
(2005)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Simon Phillips
Director: Quentin Reynolds
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An entrepreneur wanted to start a casting website for wannabes. A first-time producer wanted to cast his "fully funded" British gangster film with wannabes. It was a match made in hell. The two men - neither of whom would seem out of place selling insurance or threatening shopkeepers - decided to ..read more »
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from 20 members
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
69%
from 2,587 members
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Tooth
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Harry Enfield, Vinnie Jones, Stephen Fry
Director: Edouard Nammour
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Watch now: £2.49
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 »
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from 3,071 members
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Monsieur N
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Roschdy Zem, Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant
Director: Antoine De Caunes
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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 »
57%
from 201 members
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant
Director: Robert Altman
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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 »
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from 16,401 members
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The Little Vampire
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Anna Popplewell, Rollo Weeks, Jonathan Lipnicki
Director: Uli Edel
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It is not easy being a 9 year old in a new country. Tony has just moved with his parents, Dottie and Bob Thompson, from a big bustling city in America to a small village in a remote corner of Scotland. Every night, in his new home, Tony has nightmares about vampires, and he has no idea why. He ..read more »
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from 1,780 member
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Miracle Maker
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: James Frain, Richard E. Grant, Ian Holm
Director: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
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A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A ..read more »
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from 388 members
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All For Love
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Anna Friel, Tim Dutton
Director: Harry Hook
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Starring Miranda Richardson (Blackadder), Anna Friel (Our Mutual Friend), Richard E Grant (Bright Young Things), Tim Dutton (The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries). Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stephenson, St. Ives. Filmed on location in Ireland and Germany. Originally broadcast on BBC One in 1999 ..read more »
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from 123 members
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A Christmas Carol
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey
Director: David Jones
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Scrooge is a skinflint businessman who loathes the Christmas season and begrudges having to give time off to his best employee, Bob Cratchit (Richard E. Grant). On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late friend and partner, Jacob Marley (Bernard Lloyd), who in the afterlife has ..read more »
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from 1,154 member
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The Match
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Max Beesley, Ian Holm
Director: Mick Davis
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A romantic comedy which follows Wullie Smith and his love for Rosemary Bailey. To win her over he must help a team of misfits win their yearly football match against an opposing pub team.
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from 289 members
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The Serpent's Kiss
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard E. Grant
Director: Philippe Rousselot
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The young Dutch artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) has been summoned to a secluded country estate where the wealthy Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) has commissioned an extravagant garden to be created. The instructions for its creation come from the evil Fitzmaurice (Richard E. Grant), whose ..read more »
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from 616 members
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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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Comstock and Rosemary are a typical 1930s couple with modern ideas. He decides to leave his middle class job to become a poet while she works hard to keep her career and their unusual relationship on track. Comstock, however, is desperate to escape that symbol of middle class respectability - the ..read more »
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from 430 members
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Spiceworld The Movie
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: The Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore
Director: Bob Spiers
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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 »
49%
from 1,026 member
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Dennis Potter's Karaoke
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Hywel Bennett
Director: Renny Rye
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A self-destructive loaner whose battle with pancreatic cancer has left him embittered and in great pain, Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) decides to focus his attention on a new screenplay entitled 'Karaoke'. A lurid tale concerning the murder of a young girl working in a seedy karaoke bar, the story ..read more »
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from 89 members
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Twelfth Night
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Imogen Stubbs
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 »
67%
from 1,675 member
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Portrait Of A Lady
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
Director: Jane Campion
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Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young American woman who, after the death of her parents, has been sent to England to visit relatives. While her family's tragedy has left her penniless, Isabel's beauty has ..read more »
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from 2,401 members
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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 »
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from 6,901 members
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Pret A Porter
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Director: Robert Altman
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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 »
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from 1,585 member
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Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
(1993)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Crispin Letts
Director: Peter Capaldi
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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 »
76%
from 15 members
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The Player
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Robert Altman
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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 »
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from 5,856 members
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is motivated more by romance ..read more »
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from 12,751 members
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Hudson Hawk
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Donald Burton, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello
Director: Michael Lehmann
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This light-hearted action comedy tells the story of the world's greatest cat burglar, Hudson Hawk. Officially retired, Hawk is forced back into the business by the evil Mayflowers who, in an effort to blackmail him into stealing three works by Leonardo Da Vinci, kidnap his best friend.
59%
from 5,878 members
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L.A. Story
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Mick Jackson
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Steve Martin wrote and stars in this look at the promise and dreamtime of Los Angeles culture. Martin stars as Harris K. Telemacher, a light-hearted television weatherman who does wacky comedy in lieu of reports since, being in L.A., he has very little weather to report. He spends his time roller-..read more »
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from 2,404 members
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Mountains Of The Moon
(1989)
Starring: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant
Director: Bob Rafelson
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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 »
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from 386 members
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Warlock
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Richard E. Grant
Director: Steve Miner
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A sinister 17th century warlock summons satanic intervention to escape a death sentence and finds himself transported 300 years into the future. Arriving in modern-day Los Angeles his quest is to find the scattered remains of the 'Grand Grimoire', the devil's bible containing the true name of god ..read more »
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from 921 members
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Killing Dad
(1989)
Starring: Julie Walters, Denholm Elliott, Richard E. Grant
Director: Michael Austin
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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 »
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from 174 members
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Codename - Kyril - Complete
(1988)
Starring: Ian Charleson, Joss Ackland, Richard E. Grant
Director: Ian Sharp
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Among an illustrious cast that includes Joss Ackland, Peter Vaughan, Richard E. Grant and Denholm Elliott, Edward Woodward (Callan) stars opposite Ian Charleson (Chariots of Fire) in a taut and skilfully plotted Cold War thriller.
Thought to be one of the last great made-for television spy series, ..read more »
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Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
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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 »
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from 31,295 members
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Richard E. Grant facts
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...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 ...
