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Guy Pearce
Born 5 Oct 1967, in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Wise words: "I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things."
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Pearce in talks to join Iron Man 3 cast -
20 April 2012
-Aussie actor Guy Pearce is in talks to join Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sir Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3.-The Memento star is slated to play geneticist Aldrich Killian - the man behind the Extremis serum, which empowers heroes, like Downey, Jr's Iron Man
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Pearce apologises for mocking Australian capital -
13 April 2012
-Guy Pearce has apologised to his fellow Australians after mocking the nation's capital city in a U.S. interview, insisting he feels "embarrassed and mortified" and is "truly very sorry".-The Memento star, who was born in England and moved to Australia as a child, m
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Pearce's bodybuilding background helped him bulk up for action movie -
11 April 2012
-Aussie movie star Guy Pearce didn't have to struggle to get into shape for new action film Lockout - he was a teenage bodybuilding champion.-The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert star admits he became gym obsessed in his mid-teens and started wowing with
Guy Pearce - what members say
review by A customer from Hull
As good as the book 20 September 2003
review by A customer from Tyne and Wear, England
Stamp of approval 24 August 2004
review by FutureMan from London
More swashbuckles than you can shake a sword at! 9 August 2008
Guy Pearce - filmography
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Breathe In
(2013)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan
Director: Drake Doremus
Certificate: 
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
 
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Prometheus
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate: 
Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand ..read more »
65%
from 13,470 members
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Prometheus - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Kate Dickie, Logan Marshall-Green, Patrick Wilson
Director: Ridley Scott
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Ridley Scott helms this sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce. After finding fragments of Alien DNA, a team of scientists known as The Company travels into space aboard the state-of-the-art Prometheus spacecraft to investigate the origins of human ..read more »
69%
from 3,394 members
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Lawless
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf
Director: John Hillcoat, John Hillcoat
Certificate: 
Set in 1920s prohibition era America, Lawless is the true story of the Bondurant brothers. Brazen and fearless, these young rural bootleggers became legendary criminals. The youngest brother, Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is ambitious and impulsive, the middle brother, Howard, is loyal but reckless and ..read more »
72%
from 10,213 members
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Prometheus - 3D Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Benedict Wong, Sean Harris, Michael Fassbender
Director: Ridley Scott
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Ridley Scott helms this sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce. After finding fragments of Alien DNA, a team of scientists known as The Company travels into space aboard the state-of-the-art Prometheus spacecraft to investigate the origins of human ..read more »
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from 1,458 member
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Jack Irish
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Guy Pearce
Director: Jeffrey Walker
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Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don t ..read more »
61%
from 584 members
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Lawless - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf
Director: John Hillcoat, John Hillcoat
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Set in 1920s prohibition era America, Lawless is the true story of the Bondurant brothers. Brazen and fearless, these young rural bootleggers became legendary criminals. The youngest brother, Jack (Shia LaBeouf), is ambitious and impulsive, the middle brother, Howard, is loyal but reckless and ..read more »
72%
from 3,989 members
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Justice
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Nicolas Cage, Xander Berkeley
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce. When his beautiful musician wife, Laura (Jones), is brutally assaulted and left severely traumatised, high school teacher Will Gerard (Cage), having little faith in the power of the law, jumps at the offer of instant justice from ..read more »
64%
from 7,317 members
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Justice - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Nicolas Cage, Xander Berkeley
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce. When his beautiful musician wife, Laura (Jones), is brutally assaulted and left severely traumatised, high school teacher Will Gerard (Cage), having little faith in the power of the law, jumps at the offer of instant justice from ..read more »
65%
from 4,292 members
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The King's Speech
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
Certificate: 
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The King's Speech is the tale of Elizabeth II's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. Fascinating, moving and often humourous it charts the personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King George VI, plagued by a nervous stammer, and ..read more »
84%
from 62,178 members
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The King's Speech - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tom Hooper
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The King's Speech is the tale of Elizabeth II's father and his remarkable friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. Fascinating, moving and often humourous it charts the personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King George VI, plagued by a nervous stammer, and ..read more »
83%
from 18,966 members
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce
Director: Troy Nixey
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Troy Nixey directs this horror remake, written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, about a young girl who discovers monsters after moving in to her father's country mansion. Shortly after joining her father, Alex (Guy Pearce), and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), in their new home, Sally ..read more »
59%
from 9,929 members
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Animal Kingdom
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton
Director: David Michod
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Animal Kingdom tells the story of seventeen year-old J (Josh) as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
69%
from 17,433 members
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce
Director: Troy Nixey
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Troy Nixey directs this horror remake, written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, about a young girl who discovers monsters after moving in to her father's country mansion. Shortly after joining her father, Alex (Guy Pearce), and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), in their new home, Sally ..read more »
56%
from 4,352 members
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The Road
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
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Post apocalyptic tale based on the bestselling novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men). A father and son travel on foot through a devastated American landscape, battling both starvation and cannibals.
64%
from 45,834 members
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Traitor
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on ..read more »
67%
from 17,526 members
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Traitor - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Mozhan Marno, Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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Thriller starring Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle. Samir Horn (Cheadle) is a devout American Muslim and former US army explosives expert who has been linked to a string of international terrorist bombings. FBI agent Roy Clayton (Pearce) is assigned to investigate the bombings - but can he capture Horn ..read more »
68%
from 4,801 members
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The Hurt Locker
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Certificate:
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Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
75%
from 97,291 members
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Bedtime Stories - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director: Adam Shankman
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Disney family comedy adventure starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, an ordinary hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically start to come true. The all-star supporting cast includes Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, ..read more »
69%
from 5,520 members
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The Hurt Locker - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Guy Pearce
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Tense and gritty war film from director Kathryn Bigelow, following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq. Having to look death in the face daily, the soldiers of an elite ordnance disposal team struggle to accept their new sergeant, William James (Jeremy Renner), when he risks ..read more »
76%
from 25,812 members
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Bedtime Stories
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director: Adam Shankman
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Disney family comedy adventure starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, an ordinary hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew magically start to come true. The all-star supporting cast includes Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, ..read more »
70%
from 27,806 members
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Death Defying Acts
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall
Director: Gillian Armstrong
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Director Gillian Armstrong's drama follows the efforts of master illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) to make contact with his dead mother. In 1926, Houdini is at the height of his powers, enjoying worldwide fame and adoration from his legion of fans. The death of his mother Cecilia, however, ..read more »
55%
from 3,467 members
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Factory Girl
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen
Director: George Hickenlooper
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to ..read more »
57%
from 15,456 members
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The Proposition - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Tom Budge, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
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John Hillcoat directs this violent western set in the Australian outback, from an original screenplay by musician Nick Cave. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is presented with an impossible choice by ruthless lawman Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). To save his younger brother from the gallows, he must ..read more »
63%
from 1,852 member
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The Proposition
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
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In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
63%
from 16,748 members
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Two Brothers
(2004)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Freddie Highmore, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Set not so long ago in a distant land, the film follows the adventures of twin tiger cubs--one shy and gentle, the other bold and fierce--who are born among the temple ruins of an exotic jungle. However, on a fateful day, the brothers are separated by fate. The bold brother is sold off to a circus, ..read more »
61%
from 12,123 members
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The Count of Monte Cristo
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk, Albie Woodington, Guy Pearce
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Certificate:
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Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes is a guileless and honest man, whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand, who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Set up to be unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of ..read more »
69%
from 6,723 members
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The Time Machine
(2002)
Starring: Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Phyllida Law
Director: Simon Wells
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When turn-of-the century scientist Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) uses his newly-invented time machine to travel back and prevent the murder of his girlfriend Emma (Sienna Guillory), he finds that he is nonetheless unable to change the past. Curious as to why this is, Alexander travels into the ..read more »
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from 7,546 members
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The Hard Word
(2002)
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Scott Roberts
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The three Twentyman Brothers are back out of prison for the umpteenth time thanks to their dodgy lawyer who is well in with the wife of one of them. They now plan to pull off one last job - ripping off the bookies at The Melbourne Cup.
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from 1,443 member
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Memento
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is suffering from acute short-term memory loss and is unable to remember anything for more than a few minutes at a time. This means that not only does he have no idea who he is, but that also, whenever he meets someone, a few minutes later he will have forgotten who they ..read more »
75%
from 75,501 members
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Memento - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is suffering from acute short-term memory loss and is unable to remember anything for more than a few minutes at a time. This means that not only does he have no idea who he is, but that also, whenever he meets someone, a few minutes later he will have forgotten who they ..read more »
87%
from 551 members
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Rules Of Engagement
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, Dale Dye, Ben Kingsley
Director: William Friedkin
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Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a war hero whose peacekeeping mission to Yemen goes horribly wrong when he orders his men to open fire on a group of demonstrators. The colonel is subsequently charged with murder and asks his comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military ..read more »
67%
from 4,116 members
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Ravenous
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Guy Pearce, John Spencer, David Arquette
Director: Antonia Bird
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The Sierra Nevada mountains, 1847. A bedraggled stranger (Robert Carlyle) stumbles into Fort Spencer, claiming to be Colquoun, a settler who has been trapped in a mountain cave by a snowstorm. He reports that his fellow cave-dwellers have been reduced to cannibalism and that he was lucky to escape ..read more »
62%
from 3,722 members
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L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Danny De Vito
Director: Curtis Hanson
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In Fifties Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) are three very different cops. Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed ..read more »
81%
from 3,478 members
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L.A. Confidential
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Danny De Vito
Director: Curtis Hanson
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In Fifties Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) are three very different cops. Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed ..read more »
74%
from 59,492 members
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Snowy River - The McGregor Saga
(1993)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce
Director: Pino Amenta, Tim Burstall
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SNOWY RIVER, the Australian TV series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man from Snowy River," takes place in the late 19th century in a small mountain town outside of Melbourne. The program follows the dramatic story of Matt McGregor and his family as it plays out in the course of this charming, ..read more »
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from 18 members
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Hunting
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Rebecca Riggs, Kerry Armstrong, Guy Pearce
Director: Frank Howson
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Erotic drama about death and desire. When a beautiful married woman begins an affair with a ruthless businessman, the relationship takes her deep into a world of blackmail and murder.
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from 40 members
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Flynn
on DVD
Starring: Guy Pearce, John Savage, Claudia Karvan
Director: Frank Howson
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Biopic of swashbuckling movie star Errol Flynn, who was, or so it is claimed here, a conman, seducer and liar and a man who also liked a drink and a fight. His early years in the gutters of Sydney to the Golden Era of Hollywood are all documented here with former 'Neighbours' star Guy Pearce in the ..read more »
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Guy Pearce facts
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...scar. It was far from the best performance in the movie. That also brings me to Guy Pearce. Maybe it's because I'm supposed to dislike his character but I just found him ...
