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Emma Thompson - news / articles
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Thompson's screenwriter role to avoid typecasting -
23 October 2009
-Emma Thompson refuses to worry that ageing might affect her Hollywood career - because she writes her own parts.-
-The Oscar-winning actress has added her own twist to scripts of several of her movies, and fully tackled the role of screenwriter for her adaptation of k
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Gyllenhaal in awe of Thompson -
17 September 2009
-Maggie Gyllenhaal is so in awe of actress Emma Thompson, she's been taking tips off her while filming Nanny Mcphee And The Big Bang.-
-The Dark Knight star is currently in London shooting scenes for the sequel to 2005's Nanny McPhee, alongside Thompson who co-wrote an
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Thompson heading back to school -
28 June 2009
-Movie star Emma Thompson is taking a year off from acting - to teach drama at her daughter's school.-
-The Love Actually star turned 50 in April (09) and has vowed to take a step back out of the spotlight to enjoy family life.-
- She tells the Daily Express newspaper
Emma Thompson - what members say
Emma Thompson - filmography
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An Education
(2009)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper
Director: Lone Scherfig
Certificate: 
It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30- ish David. Urbane and ..read more »
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Due for release on 8th March 2010
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Last Chance Harvey
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins
Director: Joel Hopkins
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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 »
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66%
from 528 members
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Education, An - BLU-RAY Version
(2009)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper
Director: Lone Scherfig
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30- ish David. Urbane and ..read more »
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Due for release on 8th March 2010
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Brideshead Revisited
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Matthew Goode
Director: Julian Jarrold
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The latest adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh centres around the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and ..read more »
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61%
from 5,888 members
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Nanny McPhee
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Kirk Jones
Certificate: 
In this dark and witty fable, Nanny McPhee (a person of an unsettling appearance and magical powers) enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon, have managed to drive away 17 ..read more »
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69%
from 46,954 members
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Imagining Argentina
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson
Director: Christopher Hampton
Certificate: 
A man who has the psychic ability to look into the face of someone and see the whereabouts of missing relations, fails to possess the same ability when it comes to searching for his own wife.
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55%
from 2,143 members
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Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
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70%
from 268 members
Not available for rental
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Angels In America
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson
Director: Mike Nichols
Certificate: 
In transferring Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the small screen, director Mike Nichols has crafted a profound, ambitious masterpiece. The film follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear ..read more »
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63%
from 5,282 members
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Love Actually
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
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67%
from 76,589 members
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Maybe Baby
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Tom Hollander
Director: Ben Elton
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Watch now: £2.49
Novelist-playwright-comedian-screenwriter-television writer Ben Elton (THE YOUNG ONES, BLACKADDER) tries his busy hand at directing with MAYBE BABY, a short, sweet romantic comedy about a couple very much in love but having difficulty conceiving a child. Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy)..read more »
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from 2,677 members
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Primary Colors
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton
Director: Mike Nichols
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John Travolta leads an all-star cast (including Oscar winners Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton) on a wild race to the presidency in this savagely funny comedy. Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ..read more »
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63%
from 1,546 member
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Judas Kiss
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Simon Baker-Denny, Carla Gugino, Gil Bellows
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
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A woman and her lover who have made money by running sex scams decide to go for the big time and kidnap the owner of a computer company. Things go wrong when the wife of a senator is killed during the kidnapping...
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49%
from 258 members
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The Winter Guest
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid
Director: Alan Rickman
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A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Thompson plays opposite Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. ..read more »
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56%
from 850 members
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Carrington
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Rufus Sewell
Director: Christopher Hampton
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Emma Thompson stars as young, boyish and vivacious painter Dora Carrington, with Jonathan Pryce as writer and conscientious objector Lytton Strachey, the unobtainably gay man, that she loves passionately. Directed by Christopher Hampton (DANGEROUS LIAISONS) this unorthodox love-story is based on ..read more »
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64%
from 1,040 member
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Sense And Sensibility
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet
Director: Ang Lee
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When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. Though John ..read more »
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74%
from 10,987 members
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Junior
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny De Vito, Emma Thompson
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Arnold Schwarzenegger as a pregnant man? The Terminator with cramps and morning sickness? That was all the teasing audiences needed to flock to this 1994 farce, which reunited Arnold with his director and co-star from Twins, Ivan Reitman and Danny De Vito. Reitman had also directed the Austrian ..read more »
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from 5,955 members
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Much Ado About Nothing
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Keaton
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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When gallant Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), his nefarious brother Don John (Keanu Reeves), and close confidantes Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) ride thunderously into the Sicilian village of Messina, romance, gaiety, and suspicion abound. The men have returned safely ..read more »
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from 6,690 members
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The Remains Of The Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox
Director: James Ivory
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James Ivory directed this quietly moving film set just prior to World War II. On the large English estate of Lord Darlington (James Fox), a disciplined butler, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), devotes himself to his duties with rigorous dedication. Like his father (Peter Vaughan) before him, Stevens ..read more »
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71%
from 9,005 members
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In The Name Of The Father
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Jim Sheridan
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If it had been written as a piece of fiction no one would have believed it, but In the Name of the Father is the true story of one of the most shocking episodes in British legal history. Dealing with the events surrounding the Guildford pub bombing in 1974 and the subsequent 15-year fight for ..read more »
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76%
from 4,972 members
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Howard's End
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: James Ivory
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E.M. Forster's 1910 novel is adapted for the screen by Merchant Ivory Productions in this masterful Edwardian Age romance directed by James Ivory. The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson in an Academy Award-winning ..read more »
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from 4,573 members
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Dead Again
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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In Kenneth Branagh's stylish suspense film, Branagh stars as Mike Church, a Los Angeles detective who is drawn into the life of Grace (Emma Thompson), a woman with amnesia who is plagued by disturbing nightmares. Attempts to help her regain her memory bring them to Franklyn Madson (Derek Jacobi), a ..read more »
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from 1,059 member
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Impromptu
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Emma Thompson
Director: James Lapine
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An exploration of the relationship between female writer George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin. Sand (Judy Davis) who dresses up as a man, becomes enraptured by Chopin (Hugh Grant). Life becomes rather amusing when Sand shows up as an unexpected party guest at the royal mansion of the Baron and ..read more »
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54%
from 347 members
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Look Back In Anger
(1989)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson
Director: Judi Dench
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Adaptation of the John Osborne play, about Jimmy Porter, a selfish, very "angry young man" who feels the world is against him and takes it out on his wife, by seducing her best friend; a woman he originally despised. Starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, this Renaissance Theatre Company ..read more »
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from 344 members
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Henry V
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh makes his directorial debut and also plays the title role in HENRY V, an ambitious film that began a resurgence of interest in films of Shakespeare's plays. Henry is a young king seeking a way to make his mark on history. He gets his chance when he learns he can make a legal claim ..read more »
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from 2,648 members
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The Tall Guy
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson
Director: Mel Smith
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Dexter King is a tall, dark actor, and stooge to a famous, funny and vastly unpleasant Ron Anderson. All that stands between Dexter King and success is his hayfever and his tight-fisted boss. Dexter meets up with a sexy nurse who seems to hold the cure for hayfever... but she has a huge sexual ..read more »
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59%
from 1,799 member
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Fortunes Of War
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Rupert Graves
Director: James Cellan Jones
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The Baltics, 1939, British Professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new bride and becomes enmeshed in the politics of anti-fascism. Guy's social circle soon includes members of the Secret Service who want to involve him in dangerous missions. Their marriage is soon tested by accidental ..read more »
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from 381 members
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Tutti Frutti
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson
Director: Tony Smith
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Trouble ensues for the Majestics, Scotland's "Kings of Rock", when a good-looking redhead joins the band on tour.
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73%
from 185 members
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Alfresco - The Complete Series
(1983)
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Director: Stuart Orme
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A stellar cast and outstanding acting for this tongue in cheek comedy. Featuring then blossoming stars like Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, ALFRESCO was aired in 1983 but didn't make it to a second season. This two disc collection gives you the opportunity to relive the sketches that ..read more »
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Maybe Baby
to Watch Now
(2000)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Tom Hollander
Director: Ben Elton
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 101 minutes
MAYBE BABY is the story of Sam and Lucy, an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful ..read more »
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Emma Thompson facts
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well-worth persevering with 29 June 2004
...This is essentially an Emma Thompson film; she wrote the script and plays one of the key characters. She does look a little old for the part whereas Kate Winslet looks just...
DDL does it again - wonderful 20 September 2003
