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Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born 31 March 1971 in Crieff, Scotland. At 16, he left Crieff and Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents encouraged him to leave school and pursue his acting goals rather than be unhappy. McGregor studied drama for a year at Kirkcaldly in Fife, then enrolled at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a three-year course. He studied alongside Daniel Craig and Alistair McGowan among others, and left right before graduating after snagging the role of Private Mick Hopper in Dennis Potter's 1993 six-part Channel 4 series "Lipstick on Your Collar" (1993). His first notable role was that of Alex Law in Shallow Grave (1995), directed by Danny Boyle, written by John Hodge and produced by Andrew MacDonald. This was followed by The Pillow Book (1996) and Trainspotting (1996), the latter of which brought him to the public's attention. He is now one of the most critically acclaimed actors of his generation, and portrays Obi-wan Kenobi in the first three Star Wars episodes. McGregor is married to French production designer Eve Mavrakis, whom he met while working on the TV show "Kavanagh QC" (1995). They married in France in the summer of 1995 and have two daughters, Clara Mathilde and Esther Rose. McGregor has formed a production company with friends Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Pertwee, Jude Law and Sadie Frost. Called Natural Nylon, they hope it will make innovative films that do not conform to Hollywood standards. In 2007 he was the first LOVEFiLM TV ad voiceover star.
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McGregor jetted about to play Earhart's lover -
20 October 2009
-Ewan McGregor was so desperate to work with old pal Hilary Swank in the new Amelia Earhart biopic, he jetted between two movie sets at the same time.-
-The Scot feared he'd have to pass on the role of the aviator's lover Gene Vidal because he was shooting I Love You,
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McGregor snubs Trainspotting sequel -
27 May 2009
-Ewan McGregor is refusing to star in a sequel to the movie that made him famous, because he hates the book it's based on.-
-Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is reteaming with author Irvine Welsh to take Porno to the big screen - 13 years after Trainspotting ma
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McGregor ready to end feud with Boyle -
27 May 2009
-Ewan McGregor has reached out to end his long rift with director Danny Boyle - nearly a decade after the Oscar winner dropped him from a movie.-
-The pair formed a close friendship after collaborating on 1996 movie Trainspotting, and Boyle promised McGregor the lead r
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Ewan McGregor - filmography
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Amelia
(2009)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere
Director: Mira Nair
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A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
(2009)
Starring: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges
Director: Grant Heslov
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Adapted from Jon Ronson's best selling book, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is the new film from the production team behind "Goodnight and Good Luck" and stars Hollywood heavyweights Ewan McGregor ("Trainspotting", "Star Wars"), George Clooney ("Michael Clayton", "Burn After Reading"), Kevin Spacey ("..read more »
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Angels and Demons
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ron Howard
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Tom Hanks and Ron Howard unite for their fourth pairing with this follow-up to THE DA VINCI CODE. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
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Incendiary
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew MacFadyen
Director: Sharon Maguire
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Based on Chris Cleave's electrifying novel, INCENDIARY is the story of a promiscuous adulteress (Michelle Williams - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, HALLOWEEN H20) who becomes wracked with guilt after her husband and son are killed during a bomb blast at a football game while she was having an illicit ..read more »
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Cassandra's Dream
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, ..read more »
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Deception
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams
Director: Marcel Langenegger
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An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
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Stormbreaker - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Based on the first in the series of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novels, STORMBREAKER tells the story of a teenager who is enlisted by MI6 in order to save the world. This action-packed blockbuster features a star-making turn from Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider; a pint-sized super spy to rival James ..read more »
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Miss Potter
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson
Director: Chris Noonan
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The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
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Stormbreaker
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Alex Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent -- scuba diving, mountaineering, martial arts and so on. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider learns the truth and finds himself forced against his ..read more »
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Scenes Of A Sexual Nature
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ed Blum
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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick, and it seems that ..read more »
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The Doctor, The Tornado And The Kentucky Kid
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Colin Edwards, Nicky Hayden
Director: Mark Neale
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Get the inside scoop on the 2005 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix with THE DOCTOR, THE TORNADO AND THE KENTUCKY KID, directed by Mark Neale (FASTER) and narrated by Ewan McGregor. The documentary features all the on-track action and personal drama of the biggest weekend in U.S. motorcycle racing history.
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Island, The - HD DVD Version
(2005)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Michael Bay
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In this action thriller from director Michael Bay (PEARL HARBOR, ARMAGEDDON), survivors of global contamination live in a sterile, self-contained world where their every move is monitored. The rules are easy: be pleasant, refrain from asking questions, and don't rock the boat. Everything they need ..read more »
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Robots
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Halle Berry, halle berry (voice), Ewan McGregor
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
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Set on a world populated entirely by robots, this is the story of a young genius, Rodney (Ewan McGregor), who wants to make robots capable of making the world a better place, but he finds his dream challenged by a corporate tyrant and a master inventor, Big Weld (Mel Brooks), while also being ..read more »
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Stay
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling
Director: Marc Forster
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Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) is a young psychiatrist who is filling in for a colleague on leave. Among his new patients is Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a young art student who hears voices and is seriously contemplating suicide. This resonates strongly with Sam, who rescued his painter girlfriend, ..read more »
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The Island
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Michael Bay
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In this action thriller from director Michael Bay (Pearl Harbour, Armageddon), survivors of global contamination live in a sterile, self-contained world where their every move is monitored. The rules are easy: be pleasant, refrain from asking questions, and don't rock the boat. Everything they need ..read more »
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Valiant
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, tim curry (voice), John Hurt
Director: Gary Chapman
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High-flying comedy adventure about a little pigeon whose biggest dream is to join the Royal Homing Pigeon Service and serving crown and country during World War II.
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Young Adam
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Emily Mortimer
Director: David Mackenzie
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YOUNG ADAM is David McKenzie's adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's novel, a romantic murder mystery set on a barge in the canals of Scotland. Lovely photography by Giles Nuttgens, complemented by a lonely score by David Byrne, provides a picturesque backdrop for what is otherwise a seedy story of ..read more »
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Down With Love
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce
Director: Peyton Reed
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Part tribute to the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedies of the 1950s and 1960s, and part commentary on the changing sexual mores of a bygone era, DOWN WITH LOVE is a bright, funny, technicolor treat that sets out to prove that opposites attract. Set in early-60s New York, the film follows the ..read more »
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Big Fish - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant ..read more »
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Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Edward Bloom has always told tall tales of his life, that charm everyone apart from his son Will. When Will's mother Sandra tries to bring the pair back together, Will must try and learn what parts of his father's epic tales of giants, witches and blizzards are fact and which are fiction.
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In The Wild - Polar Bears With Ewan McGregor
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ewan McGregor
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Ewan McGregor (MOULIN ROUGE, TRAINSPOTTING) hosts this portrait of Churchill, the Canadian wonderland on Hudson Bay. The frigid wilderness is inviting to a large polar bear population in the area, making this a tourist site for many adventurers. Canadian rangers are then at pains to control both ..read more »
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Kavanagh Q.C. - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: John Thaw, Tom Brodie, Daisy Bates
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In the courtroom, esteemed Barrister James Kavanagh Q.C. tackles tough cases involving rape, pornography, vigilantes, and prostitutes, but his most difficult battles occur at home, where he tries to balance his familial duty with the pressures imposed on him by his job. Contains all the episodes ..read more »
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the ..read more »
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Black Hawk Down
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Kim Coates, Gabriel Casseus
Director: Ridley Scott
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On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk ..read more »
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Nora
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Susan Lynch, Vinnie McCabe, Kate O'Toole
Director: Pat Murphy
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James Joyce created some of the most acclaimed, beautiful novels of all time while living in Dublin and while involved with his lover Nora Barnacle. This period drama stars Ewan McGregor as Joyce and Susan Lynch (WAKING NED DEVINE) as the object of his passions. The film follows the volatile couple ..read more »
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Rogue Trader
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Yves Beneyton
Director: James Dearden
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The story of Nick Leeson, an Englishman who worked for Baring's merchant bank in Singapore, whose overnight trading losses sent shockwaves around the financial world.
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Eye Of The Beholder
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Jason Priestley
Director: Stephan Elliott
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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is based on the acclaimed 1980 novel by Marc Behm, concerning a British intelligence agent, The Eye (Ewan McGregor), who is assigned to follow the trail of Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a mysterious woman who is accused of blackmailing a government official's son. The Eye becomes ..read more »
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Little Voice
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent
Director: Mark Herman
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In a dreary English seaside town, one of it's timid inhabitants, known as LV (Little Voice), mourns over her dead father and obsesses over his record collection by singing along to his favorite performers. Her rare talents for emulating the dulcet tones of Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley ..read more »
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Velvet Goldmine
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard
Director: Todd Haynes
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Loosely based on the experiences and personalities of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, VELVET GOLDMINE is a wild, glitter-laced trip through the 1970s era of glam rock. Fictional characters Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) are personifications of glam rock's ideals, with ..read more »
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Nightwatch
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin
Director: Ole Bornedal
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While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student (Ewan McGregor) finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes. The film is long on style, with solid technical execution of the requisite alone-with-corpses ..read more »
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A Life Less Ordinary
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter
Director: Danny Boyle
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Petulant, rich honeypie Celine and scruffily adorable janitor Robert find themselves on the road to romance after he kidnaps her to avenge his termination at the hands of her callous father. But what they don't realize is that their love is celestially predetermined, as a pair of gun-toting angels ..read more »
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The Serpent's Kiss
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard E. Grant
Director: Philippe Rousselot
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The young Dutch artist Meneer Chrome (Ewan McGregor) has been summoned to a secluded country estate where the wealthy Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) has commissioned an extravagant garden to be created. The instructions for its creation come from the evil Fitzmaurice (Richard E. Grant), whose ..read more »
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Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
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Brassed Off
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald
Director: Mark Herman
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When government cutbacks threaten a century-old Yorkshire mine, the brass band consisting of the miners and their families struggles to keep it together in the face of economic repression and emotional turmoil. The charming comedic drama stars Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, and Tara Fitzgerald.
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Trainspotting
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Director: Danny Boyle
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Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends--a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. This tragi-comedy charts ..read more »
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Trainspotting - BLU-RAY Version
(1995)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Director: Danny Boyle
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A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton (Ewan McGregor), a brash twenty-something Edinburgh junkie, and his nihilistic chums Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin ..read more »
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Blue Juice
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Sean Pertwee, Steven Mackintosh
Director: Carl Prechezer
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JC (Pertwee) is the hero of the Cornish surfing community, and at times, it's only member. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate ..read more »
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The Pillow Book
(1995)
Starring: Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor
Director: Peter Greenaway
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An arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when ..read more »
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Shallow Grave
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox
Director: Danny Boyle
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After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into ..read more »
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Long Way Down - Complete BBC Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
Director: David Alexanian
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Following the phenomenal success of Long Way Round, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back with a brand new adventure - this time riding the Long Way Down. From the northern most point of Scotland at John O'Groats to the Southern Most tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas the intrepid pain undergo ..read more »
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Troy's Story - The Story Behind Biking L...
on DVD
Starring: Ewan McGregor
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Narrated by Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Moulin Rouge), this inspiring documentary tells the story of one of motor racing's most exciting racers of all time, Troy Bayliss. A keen motorcycle fan himself, Ewan narrates this story with the admiration of a man he describes as "up there with the very best"...read more »
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Faster
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Ewan McGregor
Director: Mark Neale
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Features two seasons of MotoGP World Championships and revealing interviews with riders, mechanics, commentators and others.
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Ewan McGregor facts
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True acting 25 January 2005
...This film was interesting in that it stirred a lot of interest from the ‘Ewan McGregor’ fans. “Brassed Off” tells a story of a mining community – no not in Wales as you mig...
WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH THIS? 24 July 2005
