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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
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Astounding 1 October 2003
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In America - Not to be missed 30 December 2003
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Enjoyable Adaptation. 18 January 2010
Samantha Morton - filmography
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John Carter
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Andrew Stanton
Certificate: 
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 10,254 members
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John Carter - 3D Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins
Director: Andrew Stanton
Certificate:
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 1,377 member
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John Carter - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Andrew Stanton
Certificate:
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 6,752 members
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Cosmopolis
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Sarah Gadon, Emily Hampshire
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate: 
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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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from 4,696 members
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Cosmopolis - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Kevin Durand, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate:
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Robert Pattinson stars in David Cronenberg's adaptation of the novel by Don DeLillo. Eric Packer (Pattinson) is a 28-year-old finance billionaire who sets out to cross New York City in his luxurious white stretch limo to get to a hairdressing appointment. But it soon becomes apparent that the city ..read more »
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from 1,725 member
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The Unloved
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch, Michael Socha
Director: Samantha Morton
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Drama directed and co-written by Samantha Morton, originally screened as part of Channel 4's 'Britain's Forgotten Children' season. Eleven-year-old Lucy (Molly Windsor) has suffered years of neglect by her unstable parents (Robert Carlyle and Susan Lynch), and finally ends up being taken into care. ..read more »
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from 1,152 member
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The Jane Austen Collection - Blu-ray
(3 discs)
(2010)
Starring: Samantha Morton, William Beck, Billie Piper
Director: Iain B. MacDonald, Jon Jones, Diarmuid Lawrence
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Triple bill of television adaptations based on novels by Jane Austen. In 'Mansfield Park' (2007), at 10, Fanny Price (Billie Piper) goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas (Douglas Hodge). Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral ..read more »
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from 61 members
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The Messenger
on DVD
(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 1,023 member
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The Messenger - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Eamonn Walker, Samantha Morton, Peter Friedman
Director: Oren Moverman
Certificate:
Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton star in this drama set in the wake of the Iraq war. Three months before he is due to leave the army, injured officer Will Montgomery (Foster) is sent back to the US, where he is partnered with embittered older soldier Lieutenant Anthony Stone (..read more »
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from 271 members
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Synecdoche, New York
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Certificate:
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Charlie Kaufman writes and directs this darkly comic narrative-within-a-narrative drama about a theatre director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who is producing a new play on Broadway. In his attempt to say something real in a powerful new way, he gathers an ensemble cast together in a ..read more »
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from 6,666 members
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Synecdoche, New York - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: M, Dianne Wiest, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman writes and directs this darkly comic narrative-within-a-narrative drama about a theatre director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who is producing a new play on Broadway. In his attempt to say something real in a powerful new way, he gathers an ensemble cast together in a ..read more »
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from 1,870 member
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Control
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
Director: Anton Corbijn
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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 32,237 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 18 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 942 members
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Lassie
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Edward Fox, Samantha Morton
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Family comedy based on Eric Knight's 1938 novel. The film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town in northern England. The Carraclough family fall on hard times and have to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole). Transported to the Duke's remote castle in the north ..read more »
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from 8,848 members
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The Libertine
(2005)
Starring: Shane MacGowan, Samantha Morton, Johnny Vegas
Director: Laurence Dunmore
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Drama following the adventures of John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), the second Earl of Rochester. Known for his scandalous ways, he lives life in pursuit of vice with little recourse. Married but not satisfied, he has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), and writes ..read more »
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from 30,239 members
Currently unavailable
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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 2,191 members
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Enduring Love
(2004)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton
Director: Roger Michell
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On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon ..read more »
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from 28,728 members
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Code 46
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Tim Robbins, Om Puri
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Sci-fi romance directed by Michael Winterbottom. In a Brave New World-style dystopian near future, family man William (Tim Robbins) is a government investigator sent to get to the bottom of a counterfeiting ring which is producing fake 'papelles' - the compulsory travel permits issued to the elite ..read more »
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from 11,290 members
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Minority Report
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jessica Capshaw, Kathryn Morris, Mike Binder
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick ('Blade Runner', 'Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which ..read more »
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from 52,628 members
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In America
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Djimon Hounsou, Randall Carlton, Paddy Considine
Director: Jim Sheridan
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
To begin all over again is a classic American dream. But it is remarkably hard to do, as Irish immigrants Johnny and Sarah discover when they hit New York City, with their two spunky young daughters, in the mid-1980s. In pursuit of a dream, the family uses ingenuity and sheer strength of will to ..read more »
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from 17,088 members
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Morvern Callar
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Kathleen McDermott, Samantha Morton, Linda McGuire
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Certificate:
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Lynne Ramsay directs this adaptation of Alan Warner's novel set in a small Scottish town, with Samantha Morton in the title role. When Morvern comes home from her job at the supermarket one night to find her boyfriend dead in a pool of blood in their flat having committed suicide, she finds his ..read more »
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from 4,060 members
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Minority Report - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Jessica Capshaw, Kathryn Morris, Mike Binder
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick ('Blade Runner', 'Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which ..read more »
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from 801 members
Not available for rental
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Pandaemonium
(2001)
Starring: Dexter Fletcher, Samantha Morton, Samuel West
Director: Julien Temple
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Biopic from director Julien Temple about the relationship between the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Meeting in the ferment of late-18th century radical politics, the two aspiring writers become firm friends and occasional rivals. Moving ..read more »
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from 370 members
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Jesus' Son
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jack Black, Samantha Morton, Billy Crudup
Director: Alison Maclean
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Iowa, 1971. Laid-back stoner FH (Billy Crudup) meets Michelle (Samantha Morton), and the two fall in love, get involved in heroin, then begin stealing to keep up their habit. When Michelle becomes pregnant they both decide to enter re-hab, but FH finds it hard to keep his end of the bargain.
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from 1,978 member
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The Last Yellow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Samantha Morton, James Hooton, Mark Addy
Director: Julian Farino
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Frank (Mark Addy) is a longhaired, overweight fantasist, who believes himself to be a military-trained vigilante. When his mum finally throws him out of home, he rents a room in a bed and breakfast, run by the good-natured but simple Kenny (Charlie Creed-Miles), who also takes care of his disabled ..read more »
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from 101 members
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Sweet And Lowdown
(1999)
Starring: John Waters, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen writes and directs this biographical study of fictional 1930s jazz guitarist and inveterate womaniser Emmet Ray (Sean Penn). Wandering the New Jersey seafront, Emmet meets mute laundress Hattie (Samantha Morton) and the two of them begin an affair. Together they travel to Hollywood and ..read more »
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from 3,040 members
Not currently released
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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 859 members
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Under The Skin
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Rita Tushingham, Claire Rushbrook
Director: Carine Adler
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When their mother is given only weeks to live, Iris (Samantha Morton) and Rose (Claire Rushbrook) become torn apart by jealousy. Iris is now convinced that Rose was always the favourite, and rejects both her sister and boyfriend, leaving her job and her flat. She takes to the streets, in need of ..read more »
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from 1,026 member
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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: Guy Henry, James Hazeldine, Mark Strong
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
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Andrew Davies, who adapted 'Middlemarch' and 'Pride and Prejudice' for the BBC, takes on Jane Austen's 'Emma' for ITV. Kate Beckinsale stars as the eponymous heroine who is intent on finding partners for everyone - but only if she thinks they are the right coupling. Her efforts create confusion, ..read more »
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from 3,226 members
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Band Of Gold - The Complete Series
(6 discs)
(1995)
Starring: Lena Headey, Samantha Morton, Cathy Tyson
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The complete series of the gritty urban drama from writer Kay Mellor. When Gina Dixon (Ruth Gemmell) splits up from her husband, she finds herself falling further into debt and menaced by a local loan shark. When she meets single mother Carol (Cathy Tyson), who has no finacial problems, Gina soon ..read more »
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from 1,116 member
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