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Maureen Lipman
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Maureen Lipman - what members say
review by A customer from merseyside England
oklahoma 11 January 2005
review by GraftheGreatest from London, England
Not Polanski's best but still Oscars galore 21 June 2004
review by A customer from Bromley, Kent
A good night's entertainment 4 March 2005
Maureen Lipman - filmography
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Ladies Of Letters
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Anne Reid, Paul Chahidi, Maureen Lipman
Certificate: 
All ten episodes of the ITV comedy series starring Anne Reid and Maureen Lipman as pensioner pen-pals Irene and Vera. A tipsy under-the-table conversation at a wedding sparks a long-distance correspondence peppered with ironically self-revelatory descriptions of fractious families, misdirected ..read more »
 
67%
from 221 members
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He Kills Coppers
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: James Fiddy, Liam Garrigan, Stephen Greif
Director: Adrian Shergold
Certificate: 
Three policemen are brutally murdered during the 1966 World Cup celebrations. He Kills Coppers follows three men connected to the deaths; Frank (a fellow policeman), Tony (an ambitious journalist, and witness to the murders), and Billy (the murderer).
60%
from 321 members
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Caught In The Act
(2008)
Starring: Brian Hibbard, Ian Virgo, Maxine Evans
Director: Matt Lipsey
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Comedy directed by Matt Lipsey. When a corrupt parish council in rural Wales is awarded EU funding to pay for the cultural development of their town, the councillors embezzle the money on foreign holidays, home improvements and copious quantities of champagne. However, they soon live to regret ..read more »
59%
from 95 members
Not available for rental
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The Agent
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy, Maureen Lipman
Director: Lesley Manning
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander. There are manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch. But first, there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on ..read more »
45%
from 279 members
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Lighthouse Hill
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Samatha Janus, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman
Director: David Fairman
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Romantic comedy about a successful young man who has everything but peace of mind, finding his heaven in the unlikeliest of places. Charlie Davidson (Jason Flemyng) is a thirty-something, single, rich, successful young London man who, on the surface of it, is fairly happy with his lot. However the ..read more »
48%
from 46 members
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The King's Beard
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Robin Edwards, Maria Darling, Jim Broadbent
Director: Tony Collingwood
Certificate: 
Young Rufus is a barber who comes to the Mirrored Kingdom with hopes of making his fortune cutting hair. But no one wants a haircut. They all want to grow their hair like the King, who has a beard so long that it runs out of his castle and flows down through the streets below. Rufus decides to ..read more »
46%
from 65 members
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The Pianist - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Jessica Kate M, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Award-winning drama telling the true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a ..read more »
82%
from 1,629 member
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The Pianist
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jessica Kate M, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Award-winning drama telling the true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a cafe; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a ..read more »
77%
from 50,821 members
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Discovery of Heaven
(2001)
Starring: Maureen Lipman, Viv Weatherall, Jeroen Krabbe
Director: Jeroen Krabbe
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Award-winning film about a gifted young man with a heavenly task to perform. God wants the Ten Commandments back, and since the Angels aren't allowed to travel to Earth to get them, they create a human being who is clever enough to find the stone tablets and also willing to sacrifice his or her ..read more »
60%
from 156 members
Currently unavailable
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Captain Jack
(1998)
Starring: Peter McDonald, David Troughton, Sadie Frost
Director: Robert Young
Certificate: 
Captain Jack (Bob Hoskins) is a rebellious old sea-dog. Ignoring all dangers, he is determined to follow in the wake of his hero Captain Scoresby and sail from Whitby to the Arctic. Jack pulls together a crew of misfits and loners and sets off on his intrepid journey - ignoring the fact that his ..read more »
55%
from 274 members
Currently unavailable
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Carry On Columbus
(1992)
Starring: Peter Richardson, Bernard Cribbins, June Whitfield
Director: Gerald Thomas
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This recent addition to the 'Carry On' canon (the first since 'Carry On Emanuelle' in 1978) lampoons the two serious Columbus movies made in 1992. Columbus ('Carry On' regular Jim Dale) has plans to discover a sea route to India but the Sultan of Turkey sends two spies to scupper them. Cast ..read more »
44%
from 285 members
Currently unavailable
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Love's Labour's Lost
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Johnathan Kent, Maureen Lipman, Christopher Blake
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
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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. When the King ..read more »
64%
from 122 members
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Educating Rita
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Williams, Malcolm Douglas, Maureen Lipman
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Working-class hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) enrols for an adult education course in literature at her local university, determined to expand her mind. She is assigned alcoholic lecturer Dr Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), and as Rita's horizons broaden she begins to feel stifled by her home life. ..read more »
70%
from 10,008 members
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Educating Rita - Blu-ray
(1983)
Starring: Michael Williams, Malcolm Douglas, Maureen Lipman
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Working-class hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) enrols for an adult education course in literature at her local university, determined to expand her mind. She is assigned alcoholic lecturer Dr Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), and as Rita's horizons broaden she begins to feel stifled by her home life. ..read more »
65%
from 163 members
Currently unavailable
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Agony - Series 3 - Complete
(1981)
Starring: Simon Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jan Holden
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All seven episodes from the third series of the early-1980s sitcom starring Maureen Lipman as radio agony aunt Jane Lucas. As well as solving her callers' problems, she's got plenty of her own - including her very Jewish mother, the gay couple who live upstairs, and her strange work colleagues. ..read more »
66%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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The Knowledge
(1981)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Elphick, Kim Taylforth
Director: Bob Brooks
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Writer Jack Rosenthal's feature-length comedy about trainee cab-drivers in London. The story centres on a mismatched group of hopefuls as they are put through their paces on 'The Knowledge' - the special, gruelling test system that all black cab drivers have to pass before they can become fully-..read more »
65%
from 305 members
Currently unavailable
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Agony - Series 2 - Complete
(1980)
Starring: Simon Williams, Maureen Lipman
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All seven episodes from series two of the early-1980s sitcom starring Maureen Lipman as radio agony aunt Jane Lucas. As well as solving her callers' problems, she's got plenty of her own - including her very Jewish mother, the gay couple who live upstairs, and her strange work colleagues. Episodes ..read more »
52%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Agony - Series 1 - Complete
(1979)
Starring: Maureen Lipman
Director: John Reardon
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The first six episodes of the early-1980s comedy series starring Maureen Lipman as radio agony aunt Jane Lucas. As well as solving her callers' problems, she's got plenty of her own - including her very Jewish mother, the gay couple who live upstairs, and her strange work colleagues.
45%
from 19 members
Not available for rental
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Long Day's Journey into Night
(1973)
Starring: Maureen Lipman, Laurence Olivier, Constance Cummings
Director: Peter Wood
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Laurence Olivier stars in this National Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Part of the ITV 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand, the play covers one day in 1912, graphically portraying the playwright's volatile home life, complete with a drug-addicted mother, an ex-..read more »
66%
from 16 members
Not available for rental
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Up The Junction
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Hylda Baker, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman
Director: Peter Collinson, Bob Kellett
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Iconic 1960s 'kitchen sink' drama based on the novel by Nell Dunn. When Polly (Suzy Kendall) becomes weary of her privileged life in Chelsea, she decides to move to a working class community in Battersea. She soon gets a job at a candy factory where she makes some new friends and begins a ..read more »
69%
from 923 members
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Talking Heads - The Complete Talking Heads
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Maggic Smith, Alan Bennett, Maureen Lipman
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The complete collection of Alan Bennett's twelve monologues, which tell the bittersweet tales of 'ordinary, uneventful, desperate lives'. Patricia Routledge stars in 'A Lady of Letters', Maggie Smith in 'Bed Among the Lentils', Stephanie Cole in 'Soldiering On', Julie Walters in 'Her Big Chance', ..read more »
78%
from 975 members
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Agony - The Complete Series
Starring: Simon Williams, Jeremy Bulloch, Peter Denyer
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All 20 episodes of the early-1980s sitcom starring Maureen Lipman as radio agony aunt Jane Lucas. As well as solving her callers' problems, she's got plenty of her own, including her very Jewish mother, the gay couple who live upstairs, and her strange work colleagues. Episodes comprise: 'Help', '..read more »
40%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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...don McRae version is well documented and this is what I was sent. I wanted the Maureen Lipman version so it is unfair for me give a rating ...
