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Emma Thompson - news / articles
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Thompson to reprise her Oscar nominated role of Peirce -
3 April 2012
-Emma Thompson is set to return to the big screen as the lawyer who earned her an Oscar nomination in 1994.-Thompson scored a Best Supporting Actress nod for her portrayal of attorney Gareth Peirce in In The Name of the Father, and now Screen Daily reports Thompson is
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Thompson dragged into new Effie script battle -
24 October 2011
-Emma Thompson is embroiled in a court battle over upcoming movie Effie after she was accused of stealing the plot from another writer.-The Love Actually star has written the screenplay for a movie version of the lives of 19th century poet John Ruskin, his wife Effie G
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Thompson's Effie movie in jeopardy -
10 February 2011
-Emma Thompson is embroiled in a court battle to get her latest film Effie off the ground after a New York playwright accused the actress of copyright infringement.-
-The Love Actually star has penned the screenplay for a movie version of the lives of 19th century poet
Emma Thompson - what members say
review by JBThornby from Northampton
I don't get Shakespearean comedy!....Not for me!!...Just you watch this! 17 April 2008
review by from Bury, Lancashire.
well-worth persevering with 29 June 2004
review by A customer from Lincolnshire
Better than the first four Henry's! 10 September 2004
Emma Thompson - filmography
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Men In Black 3 - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Jemaine Clement
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and director Barry Sonnenfeld return to the kooky world of the top-secret government agents who protect our planet from hostile aliens in this third entry of the Men in Black film series. This will be the first film in the franchise to be presented in 3D. FLIGHT OF THE ..read more »
 
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Brave - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly
Director: Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews
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An impetuous princess discovers that her reckless choice has put both her family and her father's kingdom in peril in this animated adventure from Pixar films. Merida may be the daughter of royalty, but all she wants out of life is to become a truly great archer. When Merida and her mother clash ..read more »
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Brave
(2012)
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly
Director: Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews
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With a courageous and impetuous heroine leading the way, Disney Pixar sets out on yet another extraordinary journeythis time across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland in "Brave." The film features Kelly Macdonald as the voice of Merida, a skilled archer and the daughter of King Fergus ..read more »
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from 26 members
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Men In Black 3
(2011)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Jemaine Clement
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Agent J time-jumps back to the 1960's, where an alien with its sights on the younger version of Agent K poses a threat to the future of the MIB organization -- and humankind's very existence.
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from 150 members
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
(2010)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Susanna White, Mike Eley
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Nanny McPhee (Thompson) arrives to help a harried young mother (Gyllenhaal) who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
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from 726 members
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An Education
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina
Director: Lone Scherfig
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A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult ..read more »
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from 44,129 members
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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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from 16,923 members
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An Education - Blu-ray
(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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from 7,755 members
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Last Chance Harvey - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker
Director: Joel Hopkins
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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 »
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from 2,253 members
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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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from 8,571 members
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Nanny McPhee - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Kirk Jones
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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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from 173 members
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Nanny McPhee
(2005)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Patrick Barlow, Colin Firth
Director: Kirk Jones
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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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from 50,913 members
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Imagining Argentina
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson
Director: Christopher Hampton
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In Buenos Aires during the Peron era, an Argentine playwright has a preternatural ability to see what will happen to people's loved ones -- many of whom are missing, or soon will be -- when he looks into their faces. Ultimately, he must turn this power inward, when his activist journalist wife ..read more »
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from 2,269 members
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Love Actually - Blu-ray
(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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from 773 members
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Angels In America
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson
Director: Mike Nichols
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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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from 6,208 members
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Love Actually
(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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from 82,589 members
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Treasure Planet
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Wincott, Martin Short, Laurie Metcalf
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements, Joh
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In this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND, Disney presents a fantastic space adventure. Jim Hawkins (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a teenage boy with a taste for adventure who seems to always be in trouble, much to the chagrin of his hardworking mother (Laurie Metcalf). But when he ..read more »
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from 6,496 members
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Maybe Baby
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Dawn French, Joely Richardson
Director: Ben Elton
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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 3,186 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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from 2,162 members
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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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from 335 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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from 1,127 member
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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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from 1,379 member
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Sense And Sensibility
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant
Director: Ang Lee
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The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier ..read more »
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from 13,277 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 7,571 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 7,809 members
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The Remains of the Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Tim Pigott-Smith, Lena Headey
Director: James Ivory
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Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the perfect butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly ..read more »
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from 10,899 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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One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is poor relation Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of ..read more »
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from 5,664 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 1,346 member
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Impromptu
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Judy Davis, Judy Davis, Julian Sands
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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from 449 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 3,192 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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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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from 2,152 members
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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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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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Emma Thompson facts
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The acting is supurb - Emma Thompson must be singled out here - while the setting, costumes and music reflect the ma...
