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Lesley Manville
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Lesley Manville - what members say
review by A customer from Ayrshire
Masterpiece! 1 December 2005
review by rossmackintosh from england
Faint hearteds beware 21 February 2007
review by SeekerSolace from Oxford
Another misguided review? 14 November 2010
Lesley Manville - filmography
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Another Year
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville
Director: Mike Leigh
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Another Year is a touching comedic drama which follows happily-married couple Tom and Gerri and their dysfunctional friends and family over four seasons; a grown son who can't seem to meet the right girl; an overweight friend; a depressive brother; and a lonely hard-drinking divorced co-worker.
 
64%
from 18,268 members
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Clone
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Hannah Murray
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Certificate: 
Watch now: £3.49
A woman is torn between two sorts of love in this thoughtful fusion of drama and science fiction from filmmaker Benedek Fliegauf. When she was nine years old, Rebecca met a boy named Tommy and found herself smitten with him; before long, Rebecca and her family moved away and she resigned herself to ..read more »
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from 33 members
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Clone - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Hannah Murray
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
A woman is torn between two sorts of love in this thoughtful fusion of drama and science fiction from filmmaker Benedek Fliegauf. When she was nine years old, Rebecca met a boy named Tommy and found herself smitten with him; before long, Rebecca and her family moved away and she resigned herself to ..read more »
42%
from 16 members
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London River
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Lesley Manville
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Certificate:
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks.
64%
from 3,052 members
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Sparkle
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head
Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Sam is a charming, young chancer who has ambitions in the glamorous world of public relations when he moves to London. However, his best laid plans suffer a real setback when true love turns his world upside down in the most unexpected of circumstances.
53%
from 559 members
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Danny Dyer, Lesley Manville, Dan Spencer
Director: Thomas Clay
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries.
Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy ..read more »
36%
from 2,654 members
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All Or Nothing
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland
Director: Mike Leigh
Certificate:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil and Penny's life, ..read more »
64%
from 4,890 members
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Topsy-Turvy
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall
Director: Mike Leigh
Certificate:
Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director's most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous period just before the conception and production of the pair's THE MIKADO (first staged in ..read more »
64%
from 2,444 members
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Milk
(1999)
Starring: Dawn French, James Fleet, Phyllida Law
Director: William Brookfield
Certificate:
This British comedy, written and directed by William Brookfield, stars James Fleet as the middle-aged mama's boy who has just lost his mother. This seemingly tragic event actually leads to good things for the man, whose country neighbors and friends have lots of plans for how he can use his time in ..read more »
51%
from 194 members
Not currently released
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Holding On
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: David Morrissey, Phil Daniels, Lesley Manville
Director: Adrian Shergold
Certificate:
Winner of the BAFTA and RTS awards in 1997, Holding On is Tony Marchant's uncompromising drama of struggle and survival in 1990s London. This is London, claustrophobic, frightening and exhiliarting. Its citizens - trying to thrive or just survive the crime-infested, decaying, paranoied capital - ..read more »
64%
from 703 members
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The Firm
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Lesley Manville
Director: Alan Clarke
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From the director of SCUM, THE FIRM stars Gary Oldman as the leader of a gang of football hooligans called the Inter-City Crew. A brutal look at football violence and urban frustration, Alan Clarke's controversial film features unflinching social commentary.
62%
from 4,167 members
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Grown - Ups
(1980)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Phil Davis, Lindsay Duncan
Director: Mike Leigh
Certificate: 
Interesting comedy-drama in which Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and are besieged by some familiar faces.
63%
from 48 members
Currently unavailable
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Mike Leigh At The BBC
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Brid Brennan
Director: Mike Leigh
Certificate:
Hard Labour: Mike Leigh's first TV drama for the BBC in 1973. Shot entirely on location in Leigh's native Salford, Hard Labour depicts the grinding daily routine of stoical domestic cleaner Mrs Thornley and her cantankerous family.
The Permissive Society: The title is ironic - a popular expression ..read more »
72%
from 1,120 member
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Lesley Manville facts
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...o the pub half-way through.
Stunningly good performances from Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville (should have won an Oscar) and the rest of the cast. Masterful camera-work, sc...
