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Branagh and Ifans all at sea in DJ film - not 'arf -
19 February 2008
Oscar-nominated actor Kenneth Branagh and Little Nicky star Rhys Ifans will team up for a new Richard Curtis-penned comedy about two 1960s pirate radio DJs on the high seas. -The Boat That Rocked will also be directed by Curtis, whose previous hits include Four Weddings
Kenneth Branagh - what members say
Kenneth Branagh - filmography
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Sleuth
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Jude Law, Michael Caine
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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This savvy remake promises just as many twists and pitch-perfect performances as the 1972 film. Since the original SLEUTH still shocks, some might question director Kenneth Branagh's desire to remake the classic, but Michael Caine doesn't reprise his role from the first film. Instead, he stars as ...
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As You Like It
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Takuya Shimada, Brian Blessed, Richard Clifford
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Japan, the 1880s. Duke Senior (Blessed) is ousted by brother Frederick (Blessed) and flees into the forest. Senior’s daughter Rosalind (Dallas Howard) and Frederick’s daughter Celia (Garai) set off after him, where Rosalind meets the man she loves (Oyelowo) and befriends him in a male disguise.
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Five Children And It
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker, Freddie Highmore
Director: John Stephenson
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What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true... at a price.
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Rabbit Proof Fence
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Set in Australia in 1931, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE tells the story of a government policy that required "half-caste" children (whose mothers were Aboriginal and whose fathers were white) to be taken from their homes by the authorities to be trained to work as servants. Based on the true story of Molly ...
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Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
(2 discs)
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Director: Chris Columbus
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Harry returns for his second year at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with his best friends Hermione and Ron. He ignores warnings not to go back to Hogwarts by a mysterious house elf named Dobby. Soon into the school year strange things start happening. Students are found in a ...
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Shackleton
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Lorcan Cranitch, Paul McGann
Director: Charles Sturridge
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One of the most amazing and compelling adventure stories of all time, Ernest Shackleton's 1915 expedition to the previously unexplored, forbidding land of Antarctica has been a subject of great public fascination for decades. With 27 crew members, the intrepid man became trapped in the icey land ...
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Love's Labour's Lost
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy sets the action in the last few days before the start of World War II. In the fictional kingdom of Navarre, King Ferdinand (Alessandro Nivola) and three chums take vow to study rigorously and avoid women for three years. Their vow is ...
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Wild Wild West
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Barry Sonnenfeld is reunited with his MEN IN BLACK star Will Smith in this gadget-soaked romp based (loosely) on the 1960s television show. WILD WILD WEST supplies many impressive visuals (thanks to brilliant production designer Bo Welch) and some hearty laughs. Will Smith is James West, a Civil ...
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Walking With Dinosaurs
(2 discs)
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh
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Learn all about the dinosaurs and how they ate, fought, mated, and more. High-tech animatronics and computer graphics are used to bring the world of the dinosaurs to life, in this popular documentary series. Includes six episodes featuring the most up-to-date discoveries, narrated by Kenneth ...
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The Gingerbread Man
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman throws his chips into the film noir ring with this stylish, moody thriller that features a spot-on performance by Kenneth Branagh as Rick Magruder, a successful Savannah, Georgia lawyer. After a party celebrating a major victory, he offers Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz), a shy waitress ...
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Celebrity
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Hank Azaria
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay--or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ...
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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 ...
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Peter's Friends
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Ten years after leaving university, Peter and his best friends reunite for a New Year's party to end all parties. Having weathered most of life's triumphs and disasters, there doesn't seem to be much left to shock them - but Peter has a special surprise that will test their friendship to the utmost....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Twelfth Night
on DVD (1988)
Starring: Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh's version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy revolves around Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. ...
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A Month In the Country
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson
Director: Pat O'Connor
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Two war-weary young veterans, Birkin and Moon, have come to a peaceful Yorkshire town to escape the horrors of war that haunt their dreams. But their work at the village church takes an explosive turn as one ignites long-denied passion within the pastor's young wife which forces the other veteran ...
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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 ...
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High Season
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas
Director: Clare Peploe
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Katharine is a talented photographer living on an idyllic Greek island. Unfortunately, the only thing that's clicking is her camera, until she finds herself surrounded by crazies, spies, smugglers, love-sick tourists, a teenage daughter and an ex-husband.
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31 October 2004
...A wonderful film, superbly acted and directed by Kenneth Branagh and with the best ever creature, played by Robert de Niro. This sticks closely to the novel and brings out th...
A reasonable English thriller 2 August 2004
