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Last Chance Harvey
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins
Director: Joel Hopkins
Certificate: 
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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100%
from 1 members
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Nanny McPhee
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Kirk Jones
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A recently widowed Mr Brown employs the services of a nanny in the hope that order will be restored to his household and his seven children. However, the children have other ideas having already dispatched seventeen nannies, who also thought that they knew better. Unfortunately the children have ..read more »
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70%
from 9,681 members
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Imagining Argentina
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson
Director: Christopher Hampton
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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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59%
from 128 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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71%
from 14,428 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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65%
from 1,259 members
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Maybe Baby
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Tom Hollander
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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59%
from 829 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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47%
from 231 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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65%
from 365 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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63%
from 199 members
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Sense And Sensibility
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet
Director: Ang Lee
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Actress Emma Thompson both wrote and stars in this adaptation of Jane Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY--a novel that perceptively examines the social manners and laws of early-19th-century Britain. Set in the English countryside, the film follows the loves and heartaches of sisters Elinor (Thompson) ..read more »
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77%
from 3,711 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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66%
from 332 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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51%
from 2,886 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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75%
from 2,503 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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79%
from 1,552 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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69%
from 2,597 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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72%
from 1,636 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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66%
from 222 members
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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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52%
from 282 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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71%
from 615 members
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Look Back In Anger
on DVD (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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53%
from 303 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 758 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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75%
from 199 members
Emma Thompson - downloads
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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
