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Gosling, Close and Fassbender triumph at IFTAs -
12 February 2012
-Ryan Gosling, Glenn Close and Michael Fassbender were among the big winners at the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA) in Dublin on Saturday night (11Feb12).-The Ides of March star saw off competition Don Cheadle, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gary Oldman to take home t
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Close modelled Albert Nobbs look on an Albanian sworn virgin -
25 January 2012
-Hollywood veteran Glenn Close turned to the Albanian culture of "sworn virgins" to perfect her look as a man for new film Albert Nobbs.-The actress underwent a drastic movie makeover to portray the title character - a woman who disguises herself as a male to work as
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Star-struck McCarthy hopes to impress Close at Oscars -
24 January 2012
-Melissa Mccarthy is hoping to run into Glenn Close at the Oscars next month (Feb12) so she can make up for embarrassing herself in front of her idol at the Golden Globes.-McCarthy received her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday (24Jan12) - for Bridesmaids - and she w
Glenn Close - what members say
review by from London
A wonderful and passionate costume drama 17 October 2004
review by A customer from Scotland
air force one! 21 June 2004
review by from Cambridgeshire
I wish I had been there! 7 June 2005
Glenn Close - filmography
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Lionheart
(2012)
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close, John Rhys Meyers
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Certificate: 
In the waning years of his life, but no less brutal for it, King Henry II (Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Patrick Stewart, (X-Men, Star Trek, Moby Dick, King of Texas, Family Guy) is holding Christmas court at Chinon, during which he'll announce the blood successor to his throne. Assembled for this ..read more »
 
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Albert Nobbs - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Certificate: 
Glenn Close co-wrote and stars in this period drama based on the short story THE SINGULAR LIFE OF ALBERT NOBBS by author George Moore, centering on the experiences of a 19th century Irish woman who poses as a man in order to work as a butler at an opulent Dublin hotel for the upper class. ..read more »
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from 6 members
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Albert Nobbs
(2011)
Starring: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
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A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublins most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couples impossible love, and Albert...a woman who pretends to be a man to survive.
19th Century Ireland: for a woman to be independent and single, she must ..read more »
66%
from 37 members
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Home
(2009)
Starring: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Glenn Close, Jacques Gamblin
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Certificate: 
"In 200,000 years, humans have disrupted the fragile balance on which Earth was living for 4 billion years. Global warming, shortage of resources, endangered species: humans are jeopardising their own living conditions. By the end of the century, the relentless consumption will have exhausted ..read more »
80%
from 16 members
Not available for rental
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Home - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Glenn Close, Jacques Gamblin
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Certificate:
"In 200,000 years, humans have disrupted the fragile balance on which Earth was living for 4 billion years. Global warming, shortage of resources, endangered species: humans are jeopardising their own living conditions. By the end of the century, the relentless consumption will have exhausted ..read more »
78%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Evening
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Lajos Koltai
Certificate: 
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
57%
from 5,323 members
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Tarzan 2
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Harrison Chad, George Carlin, Brad Garrett
Director: Brian Smith (ii), Brian Smith
Certificate: 
Disney brings several familiar characters back to life for a series of new adventures in this animated sequel to the 1999 film TARZAN. Worried that his mere existence is putting his family in danger, Tarzan leaves home in an attempt to spare them any more trouble. But through his encounters with ..read more »
62%
from 3,612 members
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The Chumscrubber
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss, Ralph Fiennes, John Heard
Director: Arie Posin
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry ..read more »
60%
from 4,279 members
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Hoodwinked
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: James Belushi, Glenn Close, Anne Hathaway
Director: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech
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It was a crime that rocked the fairytale world. Now Granny's woodland cottage is being turned into a crime scene as all the familiar storybook characters are called in for questioning. Shocking truths are revealed, casting doubt on everything you once held as true; does Little Red Riding Hood have ..read more »
62%
from 25,300 members
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The Stepford Wives
(2004)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler
Director: Frank Oz
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Your husband deserves the best. But being the perfect wife is hard work. You've tried yoga, pilates and Atkins, but still can't get rid of the cellulite on your thighs. You've memorized the Kama Sutra, but can't quite get the hang of number 73. Your laundry has yet to achieve whiter-than-white ..read more »
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from 43,641 members
Not currently released
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Le Divorce
(2003)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close
Director: James Ivory
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LE DIVORCE, based on the novel by Diane Johnson, is a contemporary Merchant/Ivory production that explores the fundamental differences between Americans and the French, especially in matters of the heart and manners. Isabel (Kate Hudson) is a brash, outspoken Californian who travels to Paris to ..read more »
43%
from 6,179 members
Not currently released
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The Lion In Winter
(2003)
Starring: John Light, Glenn Close, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
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It's Christmas of 1183, and Henry II (Patrick Stewart) must find a successor to his throne. He favours his youngest son John, while his wife, Eleanor, believes that their eldest son, Richard the Lionhearted, would make a better king. While their disagreement plunges the family into a deceitful war ..read more »
77%
from 13 members
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Brush With Fate
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson
Director: Brent Shields
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There are only thirty-five original paintings in the world by 17th century artist Johannes Vermeer - but could there be a thirty-sixth? Cornelia Englebrecht, an eccentric school teacher, possesses that priceless work of art and decides to share its history with a fellow teacher whom she introduces ..read more »
48%
from 93 members
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The Safety Of Objects
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Moira Kelly
Director: Rose Troche
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In a quiet suburb, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) lies in a coma. His mother, Esther (Glenn Close), dutifully cares for him, growing ever distant from her husband and her teenage daughter, Julie (Jessica Campbell). Julie enters Esther in a contest of endurance as a means of bringing them closer ..read more »
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from 1,670 member
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102 Dalmatians
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jim Carter, Timothy West, Ron Cook
Director: Kevin Lima
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Glenn Close returns as the malicious fur-collecting fashion plate Cruella De Vil in Disney's 102 DALMATIANS, the highly anticipated sequel to the 1996 live-action blockbuster. Pursuading the authorities that she has been successfully rehabilitated, De Vil is released from prison, seemingly ..read more »
62%
from 4,311 members
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Tarzan
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen, Rosie O'Donnell
Director: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
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Walt Disney Pictures' animated adventure "Tarzan" is an innovative and entertaining exploration of the classic tale by Edgar Rice Burroughs. With music by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Phil Collins, "Tarzan" is an adventure that traces the story of a human baby who is orphaned in the ..read more »
68%
from 10,396 members
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Cookie's Fortune
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman revisits the lighthearted territory of his 1970s comedies BREWSTER MCCLOUD and A WEDDING and once again comes out a rousing success. This time, a tightly wound narrative by first-time screenwriter Anne Rapp keeps the laughs rolling as the story unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend ..read more »
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from 698 members
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Tarzan - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Glenn Close, Wayne Knight, Minnie Driver
Director: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
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The legend of Tarzan is told in breathtaking fashion, from the loss of his parents in Africa to his adoption by a gorilla mother, Kala, to his rescue of Jane and the revelation that he is a human. Tarzan must decide where he belongs in life, while falling in love and saving his gorilla family from ..read more »
76%
from 13 members
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Air Force One - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is one of the most respected leaders in the history of America. When Kazakhstanian separatists commit atrocities on their own people, Marshall authorizes a guerrilla mission to take their leader, General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow), into custody and restore the ..read more »
69%
from 2,102 members
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Air Force One
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is one of the most respected leaders in the history of America. When Kazakhstanian separatists commit atrocities on their own people, Marshall authorizes a guerrilla mission to take their leader, General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow), into custody and restore the ..read more »
67%
from 11,315 members
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Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
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from 654 members
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Mars Attacks!
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
62%
from 12,030 members
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101 Dalmatians
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson
Director: Stephen Herek
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Slapstick kingpin John Hughes translates the classic animated children's tale into a campy live-action slugfest. The fur-loving, sadistic Cruella De Vil (Close, at her most outrageous) pants after the pelts of the titular puppies, hoping to sew them into a fabulous coat, but the dogs outsmart her ..read more »
62%
from 7,832 members
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The Simpsons - Season 7
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Julie Kavner, Albert Brooks, Dan Castellaneta
Director: Bill Brown, Wesley Archer, Susie Dietter
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All the episodes from Season 7 of The Simpsons, in which Springfield plays host to the shooting of the Radioactive Man movie, Homer becomes clinically obese in order to work at home, Homer's mom appears and her shady past catches up with her, Sideshow Bob steals a nuclear bomb, Bart is nabbed while ..read more »
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from 10,708 members
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The Paper
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei
Director: Ron Howard
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Ron Howard directed this lightning-paced, high-energy drama following one day in the life of Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), a frantic metro editor for a fictitious New York tabloid. While investigating the apparently race-related killing of two white businessmen found murdered in their car, ..read more »
62%
from 636 members
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The House of the Spirits
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons
Director: Billie August
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Based on Isabel Allende's novel and set in a South American country beset by constant turmoil and bloody power struggles, this film follows three generations of the Truebas family from the 1920s through the 1970s. Just as the nation around them is at odds with itself, the family painfully and ..read more »
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from 1,777 member
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Meeting Venus
(1991)
Starring: Niels Arestrup, Glenn Close
Director: István Szabó, IstváN Szabó
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A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and the current 'United Europe'. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of TANNHAUSER while navigating the snares and pitfalls of 'artistic' egos, rampant nationalism, internal company and union ..read more »
50%
from 21 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father ..read more »
65%
from 1,356 member
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Reversal Of Fortune
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, based on defence attorney Alan Dershowitz's book, is a hypnotically eerie exploration of a dark, ambiguous event in the life of a wealthy socialite couple. Dershowitz (Ron Silver) is hired by Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) to defend him against charges that he attempted to ..read more »
62%
from 761 members
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Immediate Family
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Michael (James Woods) and Linda (Glenn Close) Spector are a mature, successful couple who have everything it takes to be parents--except a baby. Enter Lucy (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Sam (Kevin Dillon), a teenage couple who have a baby on the way, but aren't ready to be parents. As Michael and ..read more »
56%
from 124 members
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Dangerous Liaisons
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Stephen Frears
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Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liasons Dangeureuses was the basis for this Academy Award-winning Stephen Frears film. The plot is motivated by a cruel wager between the beautiful but debauched Marquise de ..read more »
70%
from 8,502 members
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Fatal Attraction
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Director: Adrian Lyne
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While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter are out of town, successful attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a one-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), the publishing executive he has just met. He has no idea what he's getting into. Immediately after the encounter, Dan wants to put ..read more »
68%
from 7,565 members
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Jagged Edge
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote
Director: Richard Marquand
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In this hit thriller, a prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife. When an unknown assailant gruesomely slays San Francisco newspaper heiress Paige Forrester (Maria Mayenzet), her ..read more »
64%
from 2,207 members
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The Natural
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close
Director: Barry Levinson
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The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a ..read more »
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from 1,562 member
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The Big Chill
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Don Galloway
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Seven members of a close-knit college group of friends are reunited fifteen years later after the eighth commits suicide. The funeral and reception lead to an extended weekend for all as they decide to spend time together pondering the recent events. Amidst a barrage of Motown classics, the members ..read more »
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Glenn Close facts
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...ears brings De Laclos' novel to life with this stylish and spiteful adaptation. Glenn Close and John Malkovich excel in their best roles to date as the conniving Marquise ...
