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Liam Neeson
William John Neeson was born in in Ireland on the 7th June 1952. He worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a tea Cher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College in Belfast. However, in 1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theatre and made his professional acting debut in the play "The Risen People". After two years, Neeson moved to Dublin's Abbey Theatre where he performed the classics. It was here that he was spotted and cast for the film Excalibur. From there, he acted in a number of average films and Television Mini-series until he gained notice for his role as the mute in Suspect (1987). Neeson did not play the lead in a movie until he appeared in Darkman (1990). Good performances in Leap Of Faith (1992) and Husbands And Wives (1992) led to Neeson being picked for the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993). For this role, Neeson was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe. In 1993, he made his Broadway debut in "Anna Christie" in which he co-starred with Natasha Richardson. For his role in this play, Neeson was nominated for a Tony. When he returned to the big screen, Neeson again co-starred with Richardson in the Jodie Foster movie Nell (1994). In the next 2 years, Neeson played characters close to his roots when he was the eighteenth century Scottish Highlander Rob Roy (1995) and the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins (1996).
In his career's recent years, Neeson has very often Taken roles in which he is a mentor/trainer/father figure to a younger man, as in, for example, Batman Begins (2005), Kingdom Of Heaven (2005), Gangs Of New York (2002), and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). His character often must die early in the movie and/or the student's life so that the young man can apply the Neeson character's lessons to his own ongoing struggle. More recently Liam Neeson has starred in films such as; Five Minutes of Heaven, The Other Man, The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian and Taken.
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I never did think of myself as handsome--terribly attractive, yes, but not handsome.
I think I realized there were two communities in Northern Ireland when I was about nine or 10, not because there was any trouble but because in certain years my parents would keep us indoors on the 12th of July. I couldn't figure that out, because all my mates were out dancing in the streets and I wanted to go out and join them. So it was then that I sensed a "them and us" attitude.
No, I don't get obsessed with acting. Because in the past when I have got obsessed about it, it really got in the way of the creative process. I've learned to hang the character on the coat-peg at the end of the day, and when I leave in the morning I pick it up again. And I had to work at that because the other way lies a strange sort of madness.
Laid-back? My wife said that? Well, I guess I am. It takes a lot to get me riled.
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Neeson to star in A Team movie? -
10 June 2009
-Liam Neeson is in talks with movie bosses to star in the upcoming big screen version of The A Team.-
-The Schindler's List actor has reportedly been lined up to play John 'Hannibal' Smith, the role made famous by George Peppard in the hit 1980s television show.-
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Neeson tipped for Lincoln role -
13 January 2005
Liam Neeson is in negotiations to take on the role of the United States' most revered president in Steven Spielberg's long-anticipated biopic of Abraham Lincoln.-The Northern Irish actor starred in the director's Holocaust epic Schindler's List and is now rumoured to
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Liam Neeson - filmography
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Five Minutes of Heaven
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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The idea of reconciliation between two men from opposite sides of a life-and-death struggle is perhaps impossible or even incredibly naïve. Five Minutes of Heaven, a film that tracks the lives of two men from the same town but different sides of the Irish political divide, is unlike any other on ..read more »
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Chloe
(2009)
Starring: Nina Dobrev, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson
Director: Atom Egoyan
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Catherine and David, she a doctor, he a professor, are at first glance the perfect couple. Happily married with a talented teenage son, they appear to have an idyllic life. But when David misses a flight and his surprise birthday party, Catherine's long simmering suspicions rise to the surface. ..read more »
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Taken - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace
Director: Pierre Morel
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Liam Neeson is an unstoppable force in this adrenaline-fuelled thriller from director Pierre Morel. Bryan (Neeson) has taken early retirement from the CIA in order to live closer to his teenage daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Bryan's government work kept him away from Kim for much of her childhood, ..read more »
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Taken
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Director: Pierre Morel
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A former spy (Neeson) relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter (Grace), who has been forced into the slave trade.
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The Other Man
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Abigail Canton, Amanda Drew
Director: Richard Eyre
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After many years of marriage a man's wife dies. Shortly afterwards, a letter arrives for her from another man. Obsessed with finding out the truth, the husband writes back, impersonating his dead wife. Soon he discovers a love which he cannot understand.
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Seraphim Falls
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston
Director: David Von Ancken
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After the end of the US Civil War, a battle rages on between two veterans, Gideon (Brosnan) and Carver (Neeson), who has mounted a posse to apprehend his foe. As the chase drags on, it becomes clear that both are equally damned...
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Xavier - Missionary And Saint
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Liam Neeson
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Actor Liam Neeson narrates this documentary look at the life of Saint Francis Xavier, a 16th-century missionary who founded the Jesuit order and is said to have converted more people to Christianity than anyone other than St. Paul. Xavier's inspirational life and works are detailed through ..read more »
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Kingdom Of Heaven
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott confronts hundreds of years of religious conflict in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. An epic film set in Europe and the Middle East, the story follows one man's struggle to better himself and the world around him. Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a French blacksmith who is mourning the ..read more »
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Kingdom Of Heaven - BLU-RAY Version
(2005)
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott confronts hundreds of years of religious conflict in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. An epic film set in Europe and the Middle East, the story follows one man's struggle to better himself and the world around him. Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a French blacksmith who is mourning the ..read more »
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Breakfast On Pluto
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
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Reuniting with writer Patrick McCabe, who co-scripted his acclaimed 1997 film THE BUTCHER BOY, Neil Jordan delivers another entertaining spectacle of a motion picture. Set in the United Kingdom during the tumultuous 1960s and 70s, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tells the story of Patrick Kitten Braden (an ..read more »
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Kinsey
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Bill Condon
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The life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948, Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male." Using the technique ..read more »
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Patrick
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, John Clancy
Director: Pamela Mason Wagner
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The story of the real St. Patrick is part adventure tale and part spiritual awakening, with the future Saint rising from slave to liberator, learning to forgive and ultimately love his enemies, taking up a cause no one believed in, and finally lighting a fire that kept western civilization alive. ..read more »
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Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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*This title is unavailable for rental.*
Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of ..read more »
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Love Actually
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
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K-19: The Widowmaker
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Joss Ackland
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Inspired by a true story that was kept secret until the fall of communism, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER is a tale of ordinary men who sacrifice everything for their shipmates and their country. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, an ill-prepared Russian nuclear missile submarine embarks on its maiden ..read more »
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Gangs Of New York
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Director: Martin Scorsese
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In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
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Endurance
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Conrad Anker, Reinhold Messner
Director: George Butler
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In August 1914, seasoned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarks on his third excursion into Antarctic territory, planning to cross the Antarctic continent on foot--something no other explorer has attempted before. Only a day's journey from his final destination, Shackleton's ship, The ..read more »
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Gun Shy
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock
Director: Eric Blakeney
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Writer-director Eric Blakeney tells the darkly comic tale of Charlie Mayough (Liam Neeson), an undercover DEA agent who narrowly escapes death at the hands of mobsters. He only wants to retire, but reluctantly agrees to close this last case. His stress leads him to group therapy, where he befriends ..read more »
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones, Lili Taylor
Director: Jan De Bont
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Hill House was built one hundred and thirty years ago and is filled with tales of tragedy but has the house really been left uninhabited? A century later Dr David Morrow brings three people to Hill House and soon the ghosts of the past manifest themselves in terrifying visitations. Was this the ..read more »
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Les Miserables
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman
Director: Bille August
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Liam Neeson stars as Jean Valjean, a heartless convict who is transformed by a single act of mercy. Uma Thurman is Fantine, the vulnerable prostitute who begs Valjean to raise her only child, Cosette (Claire Danes). And Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush is an ambitious policeman determined to return ..read more »
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Everest - IMAX
(1996)
Starring: Liam Neeson
Director: David Breashears, Stephen Judson
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Originally produced for IMAX theaters, this documentary (with some re-creations), focuses on an expedition which set out to climb the famed mountain in the spring of 1996.
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Michael Collins
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman
Director: Neil Jordan
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Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this brilliantly photographed epic from director Neil Jordan tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British ..read more »
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Before And After
(1996)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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The idyllic life of Carolyn and Ben Ryan (Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson) is shattered in an instant when the girlfriend of their teenage son, Jacob (Edward Furlong), is found brutally murdered. Jacob was the last person to see her alive, and he quickly becomes the prime suspect in the case. Worse ..read more »
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Rob Roy
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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A rousing film version of Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romantic adventure based on the life of Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) who battled a despotic English secretary appointed by the king to watch over Scottish highlands.
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Nell
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson
Director: Michael Apted
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The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell (Jodie Foster) lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. Then civilisation enters her life in the form of two doctors (Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson), who discover the untamed wild ..read more »
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Schindler's List
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
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Ruby Cairo
(1993)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen
Director: Graeme Clifford
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When Bessie Faro's husband Johnny dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she discovers her husband was pumping large amounts of money into bank accounts all over the world.
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Husbands And Wives
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Blythe Danner
Director: Woody Allen
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Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating. Allen's use of a hand-held camera and jump-cuts adds immediacy to a ..read more »
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Shining Through
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: John Gielgud, Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith
Director: David Seltzer
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In 1940, a half-Irish, half-Jewish woman from Queens (Melanie Griffith) takes a posh secretarial job for an attorney who turns out to be a US government spy (Michael Douglas). Despite her lower-class status, the two become lovers, and the lawyer reluctantly allows her to go to Berlin to spy on a ..read more »
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Leap Of Faith
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich
Director: Richard Pearce
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Fast-talking preacherman Jonas Nightengale trades salvation in return for donations to his touring ministry. When his bus breaks down in a poor area he learns a lesson about real miracles. Soundtrack includes: Patti La Belle, Don Henley, Elton John and Meatloaf.
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Under Suspicion
(1991)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill
Director: Simon Moore
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In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned P.I. Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. His wife pretends to be painter Carlo Stasio�s lover but the pair are killed in a hotel room. The most likely suspects are Angeline, Stasio's mistress who is set to inherit his ..read more »
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The Big Man
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Billy Connolly
Director: David Leland
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An unemployed Glaswegian miner is forced into bare-knuckle fighting to support his family. He finds himself in a nightmare world of drugs and crooks but prepares to turn the tables on the chief mobster, Matt Mason.....
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Darkman
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels
Director: Sam Raimi
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A scientist on the verge of a major discovery in synthetic skin is burned beyond recognition when his laboratory is demolished by an evil gang. Altered by an experimental medical procedure, the man known as Darkman assumes 'identities' to reap revenge on his assailants.
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Next Of Kin
(1989)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin
Director: John Irvin
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Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
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Satisfaction
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Trini Alvarado
Director: Joan Freeman
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Justine Bateman is Jennie, the lead singer in a rock band from a tough neighbourhood. Held together by Jennie's brains and determination, and armed with the raw energy of their music, they gatecrash high-society parties, learn some lessons on love and take their first steps on the uncertain road to ..read more »
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High Spirits
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenburg
Director: Neil Jordan
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Peter O'Toole stars as the drunken owner of the Castle Hotel which he desperately needs to sell to pay off his endless bills. To attract buyers, he advertises the property as the most ghost-ridden hotel in the Emerald Isle... Unfortunately, when prospective buyers arrive, he press-gangs his loyal ..read more »
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The Dead Pool
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Evan Kim
Director: Buddy Van Horn
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A film crew draw up a list of celebrities and place bets on who they think will die first. When Harry Callahan is added to the list, he becomes the unwitting target of a serial killer who has been picking off celebrities one by one. Thoughtful screenplay laced with macabre fun.Fifth and final film ..read more »
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Suspect
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Cher, Liam Neeson
Director: Peter Yates
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A Supreme Court judge takes his own life. A woman is found dead - victim of a grisly murder and a homeless Vietnam veteran stands accused. The Washington D.C. public defender and a lobbyist on the jury team up; a violation of the law - find out the real truth no matter the cost... or the danger...
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Lamb
(1985)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ian Bannen, Frances Tomelty
Director: Colin Gregg
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A Catholic priest struggling with his faith is moved by the mistreatment of a deeply troubled boy at a school for delinquent youths on the Atrim Coast of Ireland. Renouncing his vows and taking the boy with him, the two head toward an uncertain fate.
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The Bounty
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox
Director: Roger Donaldson
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The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Captain Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
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Trumbo
Starring: Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas
Director: Peter Askin
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"Trumbo" is the story of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's remarkable journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner. Focusing on the writer's own indelible words, the film features performances of some of his extraordinary letters, clips from his films and, archival and ..read more »
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Miami Vice - Series 3
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Edward James Olmos
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Sizzling with sex and sin, Miami was the perfect setting for this classic 1980s cop show starring Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, and Edward James Olmos. From the minds of Michael Mann and Dick Wolf, this series used the MTV-influenced music and style to great effect. Johnson and Thomas play ..read more »
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The Other Man
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(2008)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Abigail Canton, Amanda Drew
Director: Richard Eyre
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Run time: 84 minutes
In this gripping suspense thriller, Oscar nominee Liam Neeson (Taken) is a man obsessed with uncovering the truth surrounding the disappearance of his wife (Oscar nominee Laura Linney). After stumbling across clues that take him to the streets of Milan, he tracks down his wife's charismatic lover (..read more »
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K19 The Widowmaker
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(2002)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Certificate: 
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Run time: 138 minutes
Inspired by a true story, "K-19: The Widowmaker" follows Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) who, at the height of the Cold War, is ordered to take over command of the nuclear missile submarine K-19, pride of the Soviet Navy. His assignment: prepare the K-19 for sea and take her out on patrol -..read more »
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Gun Shy
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(2000)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock
Director: Eric Blakeney
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Run time: 100 minutes
Charlie is a legendary undercover Dea agent who has been involved in more drug busts than he cares to remember, except that his instinct for danger, cool composure and nerves of steel have failed him. In this, his final assignment, a number of larger than life characters are drawn together in a ..read more »
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8 November 2004
...Liam Neeson is brilliant, this movie captures the struggle for independence and the subsequent civil war beautifully....one to watch over again...
23 May 2004
