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Davis 'relieved' awards season is over -
6 March 2012
-Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis is glad the awards season is drawing to a close - as the pressure to scoop gold leaves her struggling on movie sets.-The screen star was shortlisted for Best Supporting Actress at the 2009 Academy Awards for her role in Doubt, and
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Davis made up Cruise tale to sell Oscars dress -
11 August 2011
-Viola Davis made up a lie about Tom Cruise stepping on the designer dress she wore to the 2009 Academy Awards in a bid to boost bids for the item in an online auction.-The Doubt star dazzled on the red carpet in a gold Reem Acra halter neck gown at the Oscars and de
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Davis troubled by black maid role in The Help -
8 July 2011
-Actress Viola Davis struggled with her decision to play a black maid in segregated 1960s Mississippi in new film The Help - because she wasn't sure it was a role she wanted to play.-The Doubt star admits she was captivated by the screenplay of Kathryn Stockett's bes
Viola Davis - what members say
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Can't recommend enough 1 December 2011
Viola Davis - filmography
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Learning to Fly
(2012)
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
Director: Daniel Barnz
Certificate: 
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis play two determined mothersĀ, one a teacher, who will stop at nothing to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. ..read more »
 
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from 1 member
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The Help
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: Tate Taylor
Certificate: 
Watch now: £3.49
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives and a Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent ..read more »
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from 8,094 members
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
(2011)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman
Director: Stephen Daldry
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Oskar is convinced that his father (Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that ..read more »
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from 164 members
Due for release on 10th July 2012
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The Help - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: Tate Taylor
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
A 1960s-era Mississippi debutante sends her community into an uproar by conducting a series of probing interviews with the black servants behind some of her community's most prominent families. Skeeter (Emma Stone) has just graduated from college, and she's eager to launch her career as a writer. ..read more »
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from 2,749 members
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Trust - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis
Director: David Schwimmer
Certificate: 
Watch now: £3.49
Safe and sound in their suburban home, Will and Lynn Cameron (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) used to sleep well at night. When their 14-year-old daughter, Annie, made a new friend on-line Ā a 16-year-old boy named Charlie Ā Will and Lynn didnĀt think much of it. But when Annie and Charlie make a ..read more »
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from 2,605 members
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Knight and Day
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Maggie Grace
Director: James Mangold
Certificate:
An action-comedy centred on a fugitive couple (Cruise and Diaz) on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one Ā even themselves Ā are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the ..read more »
66%
from 42,015 members
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Trust
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis
Director: David Schwimmer
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
Safe and sound in their suburban home, Will and Lynn Cameron (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) used to sleep well at night. When their 14-year-old daughter, Annie, made a new friend on-line Ā a 16-year-old boy named Charlie Ā Will and Lynn didn't think much of it. But when Annie and Charlie make a ..read more »
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from 8,410 members
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Knight and Day - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Maggie Grace
Director: James Mangold
Certificate:
An action-comedy centered on a fugitive couple (Cruise and Diaz) on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one Ā even themselves Ā are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the ..read more »
66%
from 322 members
Not available for rental
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Law Abiding Citizen - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis
Director: F. Gary Gray
Certificate: 
Jamie Foxx (RAY, THE SOLOIST) stars as an assistant DA who finds himself at the mercy of a spiteful vigilante (Gerard Butler - ROCKNROLLA, 300) hell-bent on avenging the death of his wife and daughter, whose murderers are set free due to legal loopholes. F. Gary Gray (THE NEGOTIATOR) directs from a ..read more »
77%
from 17,014 members
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Doubt
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Director: John Patrick Shanley
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Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality and authority.
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from 24,796 members
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Nights in Rodanthe - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, James Franco
Director: George C. Wolfe
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
From MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE to THE NOTEBOOK, cinematic adaptations of Nicholas Sparks's novels are sure to inspire tears, and this drama should be no exception. Diane Lane and Richard Gere, who previously played a couple in UNFAITHFUL, star here as an unhappily married woman and a conflicted man drawn ..read more »
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from 597 members
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Nights in Rodanthe
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Diane Lane, Richard Gere, James Franco
Director: George C. Wolfe
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Adrienne Willis, a woman with her life in chaos, retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquillity she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her-a wayward ..read more »
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from 6,391 members
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Disturbia - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse
Director: D.J. Caruso
Certificate:
Shia LaBeouf (CONSTANTINE, I, ROBOT) is a young talent to be reckoned with, as he demonstrates in this genre-spanning film from director D.J. Caruso. Part teenage romantic comedy, part horror flick, DISTURBIA stars LaBeouf as the troubled Kale, who is confined to his home under house arrest after ..read more »
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from 2,109 members
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Disturbia
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: D.J. Caruso
Certificate:
Shia LaBeouf (CONSTANTINE, I, ROBOT) is a young talent to be reckoned with, as he demonstrates in this genre-spanning film from director D.J. Caruso. Part teenage romantic comedy, part horror flick, DISTURBIA stars LaBeouf as the troubled Kale, who is confined to his home under house arrest after ..read more »
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from 29,537 members
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Disturbia - HD
(2007)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse
Director: D.J. Caruso
Certificate:
Shia LaBeouf (Constantine, I, Robot) is a young talent to be reckoned with, as he demonstrates in this genre-spanning film from director D.J. Caruso. Part teenage romantic comedy, part horror flick, Disturbia stars LaBeouf as the troubled Kale, who is confined to his home under house arrest after ..read more »
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from 879 members
Not currently released
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Jesse Stone - Death In Paradise
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Vito Rezza
Director: Robert Harmon
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Based on the novel by Robert B. Parker, small town sheriff Jesse Stone tackles the mysterious murder of a teenage girl and the case of a battered wife while struggling with his alcoholism, his ex-wife and his disastrous love life. The teenage girl's murder leads him to a sex trafficking ring and ..read more »
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from 1,171 member
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Jesse Stone - Night Passage
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Selleck, Stephanie March, Stephen Baldwin
Director: Robert Harmon
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Tom Selleck stars in "Night Passage" as Jesse Stone, an ex-Los Angeles homicide detective who relocates to paradise, Massachusetts after leaving the force due to a drinking problem. Within days of becoming the new Chief of Police in this small coastal town he is called to investigate the suspicious ..read more »
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from 1,163 member
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Stone Cold
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Tom Selleck, Mimi Rogers, Jane Adams
Director: Robert Harmon
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel
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from 1,383 member
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Far From Heaven
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Todd Haynes
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The model marriage of Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) in 1950s Hartford is depicted in television ads, and a magazine features photographs of Cathy as a model homemaker and citizen. Yet, behind the curtains of their dream home, Cathy and Frank hide scandalous secrets. Frank ..read more »
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from 10,887 members
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Solaris
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh (OCEAN'S ELEVEN, TRAFFIC) delivers yet another inspired remake with this pensive sci-fi drama based on the book by Stanislaw Lem. Taking his cue from Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 epic of the same name, Soderbergh boldly chooses atmosphere over action, crafting a ..read more »
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from 16,886 members
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Viola Davis facts
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...tic villian in Mission Impossible III and now this. However it's Amy Adams and Viola Davis performances that surpass the rest. Adams is perfect as the naive innocent nun...
