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  • Sliding Doors
  • Sliding Doors review by A customer from Leyland
    Rated - 2 stars A Film Of Two Halves 19 April 2005
    ... do much other than look fey in a faux-Shakespeare-in-Love kind of wistfulness. John Lynch is very good with his one-dimensional character and John Hannah does his usual ...  

John Lynch - filmography


  • Isolation on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Essie Davis,  Sean Harris,  Marcel Iures
    Director: Billy O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At the end of a muddy road lies an isolated, forlorn farm, run by farmer Dan Reilly - so desperate for cash to support his business that he agrees for a local biotech firm to carry out supposedly simple experiments on his cattle. But what should have been routine pregnancy tests becomes a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,581 member
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  • Puckoon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Griff Rhys Jones,  Elliott Gould,  Daragh O'Malley
    Director: Terence Ryan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Adapted from Spike Milligan's comic novel this story, in the vein of PASSPORT TO PIMLICO, where a small area of land is segregated from the rest of society. When an Irish Free State is set up in the 1920s when the Sligo border is drawn bisecting the Irish village of Puckoon right down the middle, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 307 members
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  • Sliding Doors on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  John Hannah,  John Lynch
    Director: Peter Howitt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A beautiful young English woman learns that she has been fired from her PR job. On the way home, the doors of a tube car close on her, opening the "what if" floodgates. She begins to live out two lives: if she had made the train, and if she hadn't. An intriguing concept about fate and how simple ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 27,570 members
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  • Some Mother's Son (1996)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Fionnula Flanagan,  Aidan Gillen
    Director: Terry George
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 33 members
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  • Nothing Personal on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ian Hart,  John Lynch,  James Frain
    Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An unromantic, "kitchen sink" dramatization of terrorist strife in Belfast, circa 1975. After a Nationalist bomb demolishes a Protestant bar, the dismal lives of the denizens of two neighborhoods--one Protestant, one Catholic--are thrown into senseless turmoil. Adapted by Daniel Mornin from his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 149 members
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  • Edward II (1991)
    Starring: Steven Waddington,  Tilda Swinton,  Kevin Collins
    Director: Derek Jarman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In EDWARD II, director Derek Jarman revisits Christopher Marlowe's play of bloodletting and royal intrigue, bringing the homosexual theme to the forefront. Steven Waddington stars as Prince Edward II, who upsets England's noblemen by sharing his throne with his commoner lover, Gaveston (Andrew ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 54 members
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  • Hardware on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Dylan McDermott,  Stacey Travis,  John Lynch
    Director: Richard Stanley
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    IN THE 21ST CENTURY THERE’S A NEW ENDANGERED SPECIES…MAN. In a post-apocalyptic, nuclear-scarred future the world has become a radioactive, neon drenched, industrial wasteland populated by the disenfranchised and the demented. Amidst the dust and decay of a poisoned landscape a “..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 984 members
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  • Sliding Doors to Watch Now (1998)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  John Hannah,  John Lynch
    Director: Peter Howitt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 99 minutes
    British actor Peter Howitt wrote and directed this British romantic comedy-drama with a "road not taken" premise recalling the 1921 play If by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and O.Henry's short story Roads of Destiny (1909). Howitt's storyline branches in two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 229 members
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John Lynch facts

5 most recent films

Isolation - 2.5 stars
Puckoon - 2.5 stars
Night Train - 2.5 stars
Sliding Doors - 3.5 stars
Some Mother's Son - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Secret Garden - 3.5 stars
Sliding Doors - 3.5 stars
Edward II - 3.5 stars
The Secret Of Roan Inish - 3.0 stars
Nothing Personal - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Some Mother's Son - 3.5 stars
Hardware - BLU-RAY Version - 2.0 stars
Hardware - 2.5 stars
Isolation - 2.5 stars
Puckoon - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeanne Tripplehorn - 2 times - show films
Stacey Travis - 2 times - show films
William Hootkins - 2 times - show films
Gwyneth Paltrow - 2 times - show films
Iggy Pop - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Howitt - 2 times - show films
Richard Stanley - 2 times - show films
Terry George - 1 times - show films
Agnieszka Holland - 1 times - show films
Terence Ryan - 1 times - show films