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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


  • 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


  • Minority Report
  • Minority Report review by from Hampstead
    Rated - 4.0 stars Astounding 1 October 2003
    ...e a believably futuristic landscape. Cruise & Farrell are intense and cool and Samantha Morton mesmerising. This is a big action sci fi that astounds on every level....   Read customer review
  • In America
  • In America review by A customer from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars In America - Not to be missed 30 December 2003
    ...This film must be a lively outsider for an oscar. Samantha Morton puts in a superb performance as the wife and mother of an actor who is between work. The two young bolger s...   Read customer review
  • Jane Austin's Emma
  • Jane Austin's Emma review by filmsaremypassion from Bexhill
    Rated - 4.0 stars Enjoyable Adaptation. 18 January 2010
    ...lt for her when things went wrong but you smile when she gets her happy ending. Samantha Morton was also good as Harriet, Emma's friend. Mark Strong was handsome but sometimes...   Read customer review

Samantha Morton - filmography


  • John Carter on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Ciaran Hinds,  Samantha Morton,  Ciarán Hinds
    Director: Andrew Stanton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% 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: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,377 member
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  • John Carter - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Ciaran Hinds,  Samantha Morton,  Ciarán Hinds
    Director: Andrew Stanton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 6,752 members
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  • Cosmopolis on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Mathieu Amalric,  Sarah Gadon,  Emily Hampshire
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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.
    1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 4,696 members
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  • Cosmopolis - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Kevin Durand,  Sarah Gadon,  Mathieu Amalric
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 »
    1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 1,725 member
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  • The Unloved on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Susan Lynch,  Michael Socha
    Director: Samantha Morton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,152 member
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  • The Messenger on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ben Foster,  Woody Harrelson,  Samantha Morton
    Director: Oren Moverman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,023 member
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  • Synecdoche, New York on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dianne Wiest,  Philip Seymour Hoffman,  Emily Watson
    Director: Charlie Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 6,666 members
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  • Synecdoche, New York - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: M,  Dianne Wiest,  Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Director: Charlie Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,870 member
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  • Control on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Sam Riley,  Samantha Morton,  Craig Parkinson
    Director: Anton Corbijn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 32,237 members
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  • Expired (2007)
    Starring: Samantha Morton,  Jason Patric,  Teri Garr
    Director: Cecilia Miniucchi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 18 members
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  • Mister Lonely on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Diego Luna,  Samantha Morton,  Denis Lavant
    Director: Harmony Korine,  Harmony Korine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 942 members
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  • Lassie on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Edward Fox,  Samantha Morton
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8,848 members
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  • The Libertine (2005)
    Starring: Shane MacGowan,  Samantha Morton,  Johnny Vegas
    Director: Laurence Dunmore
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 30,239 members
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  • River Queen on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Samantha Morton,  Kiefer Sutherland,  Cliff Curtis
    Director: Vincent Ward
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,191 members
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  • Enduring Love (2004)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Rhys Ifans,  Samantha Morton
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 28,728 members
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  • Code 46 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Samantha Morton,  Tim Robbins,  Om Puri
    Director: Michael Winterbottom
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 11,290 members
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  • Minority Report on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Jessica Capshaw,  Kathryn Morris,  Mike Binder
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 52,628 members
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  • In America on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Djimon Hounsou,  Randall Carlton,  Paddy Considine
    Director: Jim Sheridan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 17,088 members
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  • Morvern Callar on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Kathleen McDermott,  Samantha Morton,  Linda McGuire
    Director: Lynne Ramsay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,060 members
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  • Minority Report - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Jessica Capshaw,  Kathryn Morris,  Mike Binder
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 801 members
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  • Pandaemonium (2001)
    Starring: Dexter Fletcher,  Samantha Morton,  Samuel West
    Director: Julien Temple
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 370 members
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  • Jesus' Son on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Samantha Morton,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Alison Maclean
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,978 member
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  • The Last Yellow on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Samantha Morton,  James Hooton,  Mark Addy
    Director: Julian Farino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 101 members
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  • Sweet And Lowdown (1999)
    Starring: John Waters,  Uma Thurman,  Brian Markinson
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,040 members
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  • Tom Jones (2 discs) on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Max Beesley,  Samantha Morton,  James D'Arcy
    Director: Metin Huseyin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 859 members
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  • Under The Skin on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Samantha Morton,  Rita Tushingham,  Claire Rushbrook
    Director: Carine Adler
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,026 member
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  • This Is the Sea (1997)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Gabriel Byrne,  John Lynch
    Director: Mary McGuckian
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,226 members
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  • Band Of Gold - The Complete Series (6 discs) (1995)
    Starring: Lena Headey,  Samantha Morton,  Cathy Tyson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,116 member
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Samantha Morton facts

5 most recent films

John Carter - 3.5 stars
John Carter - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
John Carter - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Cosmopolis - 1.5 stars
Cosmopolis - Blu-ray - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Control - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Minority Report - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Control - 3.5 stars
Band Of Gold - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

This Is the Sea - 3 stars
Max And Ruby Vol.4 - 3 stars
Expired - 3.0 stars
Cosmopolis - 1.5 stars
Cosmopolis - Blu-ray - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mark Strong - 6 times - show films
Daniel London - 4 times - show films
Mike Binder - 4 times - show films
Peter Stormare - 4 times - show films
Kate Beckinsale - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 7 times - show films
Charlie Kaufman - 5 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 4 times - show films
Diarmuid Lawrence - 4 times - show films
Diarmuid Lawrence - 4 times - show films