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Morton refused to rehearse emotional Messenger scene -
27 May 2011
-Samantha Morton refused to rehearse an emotional scene for The Messenger so she could portray her "real reaction" to the plotline during filming.-Morton plays a woman whose soldier husband dies in combat and one scene shows her character being told the tragic news.- Th
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Army officials called off Foster's sex scene with Morton -
24 November 2009
-A sex scene between Ben Foster and Brit Samantha Morton was scrapped from new movie The Messenger - because U.S. Army officials didn't approve of the idea of soldiers sleeping with fallen comrades' wives.-
-X-Men: The Last Stand star Foster plays a reluctant war hero as
Samantha Morton - what members say
review by A customer from Shrewsbury, UK
Coleridge meets Wordsworth and the sparks fly! 12 November 2004
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Astounding 1 October 2003
review by A customer from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK
In America - Not to be missed 30 December 2003
Samantha Morton - filmography
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John Carter
(2012)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins
Director: Andrew Stanton
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Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a ..read more »
 
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from 176 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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John Carter - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins
Director: Andrew Stanton
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Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a ..read more »
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from 23 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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Cosmopolis
(2012)
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand
Director: David Cronenberg
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Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
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The Unloved
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch, Michael Socha
Director: Samantha Morton
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In the British Midlands, Lucy lives with an unstable, sometimes violent father. When the local social services step in to rescue her, Lucy leaves the chaos of her family for the uncertain dangers of a care home. Lucy is left to navigate the social services system that includes arbitrary rules, ..read more »
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from 1,050 member
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The Messenger
(2009)
Starring: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton
Director: Oren Moverman
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U.S. Army Officer Will Montgomery has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while ..read more »
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from 131 members
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The Messenger - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton
Director: Oren Moverman
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An Iraq War veteran who just narrowly escaped death in combat struggles with his new post at the Casualty Notification Office while anticipating his upcoming discharge in this military drama starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone, and Samantha Morton. Will Montgomery (Foster) has spent ..read more »
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from 15 members
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Synecdoche, New York
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson
Director: Charlie Kaufman
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Obsession and identity are recurring themes in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's work, and he draws on them again in his directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. Kaufman's film focuses on the wiles of Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a regional theatre director who has won a MacArthur grant to ..read more »
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from 6,218 members
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Mister Lonely
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant
Director: Harmony Korine, Harmony Korine
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In Paris, a young American (Luna) who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe (Morton), who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin (Lavant) and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
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from 854 members
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Control
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
Director: Anton Corbijn
Certificate:
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A profile of Ian Curtis (Riley), the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
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from 31,336 members
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Expired
(2007)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Jason Patric, Teri Garr
Director: Cecilia Miniucchi
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The sight of a dark-suited municipal employee doling out parking violations stirs a primal hate in all but the most enlightened souls. And, the heroine of our film, Expired, the meter maid Claire, knows it. The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all ..read more »
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from 16 members
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The Libertine
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton
Director: Laurence Dunmore
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An antidote to the sunny period pieces adopted from Jane Austen, which feature impeccably coiffed aristocracy engage in the witty banter of drawing room dramas and culminate in a most delightful denouement, 'The Libertine' highlights the underbelly of the Britocracy of centuries past. Adapted from ..read more »
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from 29,807 members
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River Queen
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis
Director: Vincent Ward
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An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between the British army and Maori fighters during the British colonisation of New Zealand.
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from 2,121 members
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Lassie
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, Gregor Fisher
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Lassie is the timeless story of the remarkable bond between a young boy and his dog set in a Yorkshire mining town. After falling on hard times, the Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog, to the Duke of Rudling. When Lassie finds herself transported five hundred miles away ..read more »
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from 8,777 members
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Code 46
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Certificate:
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Set in Shanghai in the near future, CODE 46 takes place in a world where in-vitro fertilization, embryo splitting, and cloning have become so widespread that the government monitors all pregnancies to avoid incestuous births, whether on purpose or accidental. In Michael Winterbottom's science-..read more »
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from 10,999 members
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In America
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan's autobiographical film, IN AMERICA, begins as Irish immigrants Johnny (Paddy Considine, ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton, SWEET & LOWDOWN), and their two daughters drive their wood-panelled station wagon across the Canadian border and into the United States. As ..read more »
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from 16,648 members
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Minority Report - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell
Director: Steven Spielberg
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The science-fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054, in Washington, D.C., murder has been eliminated thanks to Precrime, a program that uses the visions of three psychics, ..read more »
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from 651 members
Not available for rental
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Minority Report
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell
Director: Steven Spielberg
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The science-fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054, in Washington, D.C., murder has been eliminated thanks to Precrime, a program that uses the visions of three psychics, ..read more »
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from 51,601 members
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Morvern Callar
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire
Director: Lynne Ramsay
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Movern Callar awakes on Christmas morning to the shocking discovery that her boyfriend has committed suicide and is lying in a pool of blood on the bedroom floor. She finds a manuscript of the novel that he has been writing and decides to dispose of his body and pass the novel off as her own work...
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from 3,879 members
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Pandaemonium
(2001)
Starring: John Hannah, Linus Roache, Samantha Morton
Director: Julien Temple
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In this biographical tale about the lives of late-18th-century poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah), director Julien Temple (THE FILTH AND THE FURY) and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (HILARY AND JACKIE) come together to present an intriguing, ..read more »
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from 360 members
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The Last Yellow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Mark Addy, Charlie Creed-Miles, Samantha Morton
Director: Julian Farino
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In THE LAST YELLOW, Frank (Mark Addy) is overweight, unemployed, and still living with his mother. When Frank's mum finally throws him out, he rents a room in a run-down bed & breakfast operated by the hopelessly naive Kenny (Charlie Creed-Miles), who spends his days caring for his disabled brother,..read more »
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from 93 members
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Jesus' Son
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Denis Leary, Dennis Hopper
Director: Alison Maclean
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Alison Maclean's exhilarating adaptation of Denis Johnson's acclaimed short story collection is a deeply compassionate portrait of one man's descent into drug addiction, filled with a potent blend of surreal imagery and gritty realism. Remaining true to Johnson's original text, and in keeping with ..read more »
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from 1,912 member
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Sweet And Lowdown
(1999)
Starring: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman
Director: Woody Allen
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Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanizing Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic ..read more »
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from 2,987 members
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Tom Jones
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Max Beesley, Samantha Morton, James D'Arcy
Director: Metin Huseyin
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A ribald and rowdy romp through the mansions and taverns of Georgian England. Henry Fielding's fallen hero bed-hops his way out of a good home and almost into a hangman's noose, via a series of misadventures and misunderstandings. This big budget production boasts a strong supporting cast.
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from 835 members
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This Is the Sea
(1997)
Starring: Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Lynch
Director: Mary McGuckian
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The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's ..read more »
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Jane Austin's Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: James Hazeldine, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Certificate: 
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A faithful, enchanting adaptation of Austen's nineteenth-century tale of Emma Woodhouse, a clever young woman whose mischievous matchmaking schemes nearly cost her her own shot at romance. From the producers of A?'s acclaimed PRIDE & PREJUDICE.
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from 3,131 members
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Band Of Gold - The Complete Series
(6 discs)
(1995)
Starring: Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson
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From the acclaimed writer Kay Mellor (Playing the Field, Fanny and Elvis, Fat Friends) comes a nail-biting and addictive, gritty series about the dark and seedy netherworld of prostitution. All three series of BAND OF GOLD are available here for the first time in one set. Originally broadcast on ..read more »
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from 1,102 member
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Max And Ruby Vol.4
Starring: Samantha Morton
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Based on a series of children's books by Rosemary Wells, this charming animated children's program chronicles the sibling rivalry between brother and sister bunnies Max and Ruby. Never content to let older sister Ruby boss him around, three-year-old Max always manages to brew up some mischief to ..read more »
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... Coleridge tries to create a utopian existence in Somerset with his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton) but things do not go to plan and he is drawn to Wordsworth's sister Dorothy (E...
