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Daybreakers
(2010)
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
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In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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Dean Spanley
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
Director: Toa Fraser
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Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
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Skin
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige
Director: Anthony Fabian
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A dark-skinned girl born to white South African parent attempts to explore her identity in the era of apartheid as her government, her parents, and society as a whole struggle with what it means to the black child of Caucasian descent in a nation deeply divided by race. The year is 1955. Sandra ..read more »
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Iron Road
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill, Tony Leung Ka Fai
Director: David Wu
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A poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon.
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Tudors, The - Series 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill, Natalie Dormer
Director: Michael Hirst
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Passion, ambition and treachery collide in this compelling, daring, big budget drama about the tumultuous early part of King Henry VIII's infamous 40-year reign...Bold and passionate about his country and his women, King Henry's obsession with ensuring his legacy led to beheading friends and foes, ..read more »
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from 2,205 members
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Angel
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Janine Duvitski, Christopher Benjamin, Lucy Russell
Director: Francois Ozon
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Acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon directs this lush adaptation of a novel by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor. ANGEL begins in England in 1905, with the beauty of the title (Romola Garai) ardently pursuing a career as a writer. Her book catches the fancy of the British public, and soon ..read more »
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Irresistible
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt
Director: Ann Turner
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A wife and mother (Sarandon) is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
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Merlin's Apprentice
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Sam Neill, John Reardon, Miranda Richardson
Director: David Wu
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The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot, a Kingdom now vulnerable to ill-fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail, its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack, an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly magic, the fight against unknown dangers begins - ..read more »
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Yes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill
Director: Sally Potter
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YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and ..read more »
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Wimbledon
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Richard Loncraine's 'Wimbledon' is a lighthearted romantic comedy set in the high-pressure world of professional tennis. Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is a 31-year-old Englishman who was once ranked 11th in the world, but has now dropped to a pathetic 119th. Realising that his days are numbered, Peter ..read more »
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Perfect Strangers
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sam Neill, Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck
Director: Gaylene Preston
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PERFECT STRANGERS is a striking feature from New Zealand director Gaylene Preston (BREAD & ROSES, WAR STORIES). One night, bored thirty-something Melanie goes out drinking with her friends. After getting sufficiently intoxicated, she goes home with a charming man (Sam Neill). When she wakes up, she'..read more »
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Doctor Zhivago
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sam Neill, Chris Marshall, Hans Matheson
Director: Giacomo Campiotti
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A young married man Yury Zhivago falls in love with a Lara. Meanwhile Lara attempts to escape from her lover Komarovsky.This television mini-series, based on Boris Pasternak's romantic novel, set amid the atrocious, bloody events of the Russian Revolution, stars Hans Matheson as Yury Zhivago and ..read more »
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64%
from 951 members
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Dirty Deeds
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Bryan Brown, John Goodman, Toni Collette
Director: David Caesar
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DIRTY DEEDS is an Aussie gangster flick set against the booming casino underworld of late 1960s Sydney. Bryan Brown (COCKTAIL, THE THORN BIRDS) stars as Barry Ryan, an Australian mobster who controls the city's gambling scene and is making a killing from the casino slot machines. His profitable ..read more »
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Jurassic Park 3
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sam Neill, Tea Leoni, William H. Macy
Director: Joe Johnston
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Paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) has sworn never to return to Jurassic Park. But he needs funding for his research, so when a wealthy thrill-seeking couple (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) come calling, Grant and his protegee, Billy (Alessandro Nivola), agree to take them on a sightseeing ..read more »
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Space
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sam Neill
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This awe-inspiring six-part TV series, hosted by actor Sam Neill, explores the universe using state-of-the-art computer graphics. The programme poses big questions while it reveals fascinating glimpses of outer space. The release includes "Star Stuff," "Staying Alive," "Black Holes," "Are We Alone
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Framed
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sam Neill, Rob Lowe, Peter MacNeill
Director: Daniel Petrie Jr.
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New York detective Mike Santini (Rob Lowe) is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers (Sam Neill) a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile money-laundering case. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers, prompting the wiley criminal to ..read more »
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The Dish
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long
Director: Rob Sitch
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In July 1969, the eyes of the world were on the Apollo 11 moon landing--but the world would have watched blank television screens if not for the hard work of a group of Australians manning the Parkes Radio Telescope, one of the largest dishes in the world. In THE DISH, a dramatization of the events ..read more »
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The Magic Pudding
(2000)
Starring: John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill
Director: Karl Zwicky
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Meet Albert (John Cleese) a magnificent puddin' who can turn himself into just about any puddin' you can imagine. Only problem is that everyone is trying to steal him and he has the annoying habit of running away at every possible opportunity! It's up to his three friends to look after Albert, ..read more »
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Bicentennial Man
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz
Director: Chris Columbus
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Andrew Martin (Williams) is a household android whose intended function is thrown for a loop when he begins to feel genuine human emotions. Over the next two centuries the resulting dealings with his adopted family and new acquaintances provide the film with ample opportunities to raise important ..read more »
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The Horse Whisperer
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dianne Wiest
Director: Robert Redford
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For director Robert Redford the trick was directing himself. The Oscar-winning director (Ordinary People, Quiz Show) says that he is one kind of actor (in the moment) and a different kind of director (more controlling). Whatever the problems, Redford has worked it out beautifully in this leisurely ..read more »
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Merlin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Gielgud
Director: Steve Barron
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This ambitious, all-star miniseries treatment of the Round Table legends is narrated from the perspective of the sorcerer Merlin (Sam Neill), who must choose between loyalty to the court and his love for beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini). Solid acting and spectacular special effects combine to ..read more »
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from 1,881 member
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Event Horizon
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
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In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their ..read more »
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In Cold Blood
(1996)
Starring: Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Stylish mini-series based on Truman Capote's haunting non-fiction novel. Two aimless drifters, Perry Smith (Eric Roberts) and Dick Hickock (Anthony Edwards), target the home of Kansas businessman Herbert Clutter. After breaking into the house, they find no money, and, infrustration, brutally kill ..read more »
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Snow White - A Tale Of Terror
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows
Director: Michael Cohn
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From its dark and complex themes to its archetypal imagery, the Grimm fable of the innocent and beautiful Snow White has captured readers for centuries, but it has not often been given accurate treatment on film. SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR attempts to do this with magnificent performances, ..read more »
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Children of the Revolution
(1996)
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill
Director: Peter Duncan
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A blindly idealistic Australian Communist believes so fervently in the Revolution that she writes weekly love letters to Joseph Stalin, conceives his child (or so she believes), and raises a son in the tradition of iron-fisted tyranny. A scathing, idiosyncratic satire of ideological zealotry in ..read more »
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The Jungle Book
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Sam Neill, Lena Headey
Director: Stephen Sommers
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's tale of Mowgli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the "civilisation" of Colonial India which he ..read more »
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from 828 members
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Sirens
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Sam Neill, Hugh Grant, Elle Macpherson
Director: John Duigan
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When a young English minister (Hugh Grant) takes an Australian parish, his first assignment is to dissuade a local painter (Sam Neill) from showing a provocative painting. He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artist's home only to be smitten by three ravishing models posing, ironically, as ..read more »
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Jurassic Park
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Bob Peck
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg directed this blockbuster thriller based on the popular book by Michael Crichton. Millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) asks two dinosaur experts (Laura Dern and Sam Neill) to act as consultants on his entrepreneurial endeavor--an amusement park with DNA-cloned live ..read more »
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The Piano
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
Director: Jane Campion
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This controversially erotic film from New Zealand established screenwriter-director Jane Campion as a universally recognized talent. Holly Hunter stars as Ada, a mute 19th-century woman sent to New Zealand in an arranged marriage with a patriarchal landowner (Sam Neill). She brings along her ..read more »
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Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill
Director: John Carpenter
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Chevy Chase stars as Nick Holloway in John Carpenter's comedy as a man who seems to have everything but then ends up with the unwanted bonus of being invisible. The CIA are after Nick (who wouldn't want an invisible agent), but all he wants to do is settle down with Alice (played by Darryl Hannah) ..read more »
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Hostage
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sam Neill, James Fox, Talisa Soto
Director: Robert Young
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John Rennie, a special forces agent is sent to recover an abducted defence analyst from Argentina. Arranging the kidnapping of the chief suspect's children and executing the terrorists should have seen the job finished. But instead John has questions he would like the answers to and strangely his ..read more »
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The Hunt For Red October
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill
Director: John McTiernan
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It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly Red October approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy's ..read more »
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Dead Calm
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Returning from duty with the Australian navy, John Ingram (Sam Neill) is surprised to be met by two policemen, who inform him of a car accident that has left his son dead and his wife, Rae (Nicole Kidman), injured. The grieving couple seeks refuge on their yacht, the Saracen. Out on the boat, the ..read more »
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A Cry In The Dark
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Nick Tate
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Meryl Streep and Sam Neill star in this documentary style film adaptation of the true story of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, an Australian couple who lived the nightmare of losing their infant daughter during a family camping trip. When Lindy (Streep) spies a dingo nearby, authorities launch a ..read more »
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The Good Wife
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill
Director: Ken Cameron
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Starved for affection from her unromantic husband, Marge's long denied sexuality is unleashed by a charming but coldhearted womaniser who arrives in town to run the hotel bar. Set in 1939 in a small New South Wales timber town.
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from 37 members
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Reilly - Ace Of Spies - Gambit
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sam Neill
Director: Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard
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Sam Neill stars in this 1983 TV miniseries as Sidney Reilly, an enigmatic spy operating in Europe and Asia. The character is based on a real person, who was the primary inspiration behind the creation of James Bond. This collection presents two more episodes: "Gambit" and "Endgame."
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Reilly - Ace Of Spies - After Moscow
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sam Neill
Director: Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard
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Sam Neill stars in this 1983 TV miniseries as Sidney Reilly, an enigmatic spy operating in Europe and Asia. The character is based on a real person, who was the primary inspiration behind the creation of James Bond. This collection presents two more episodes: "After Moscow" and "The Trust."
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from 171 members
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Reilly - Ace of Spies - The Last Journey
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sam Neill
Director: Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard
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Sam Neill stars in this 1983 TV mini-series as Sidney Reilly, an enigmatic spy operating in Europe and Asia. The character is based on a real person, who was the primary inspiration behind the creation of James Bond. This collection presents two more episodes: "The Last Journey" and "Shutdown."
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from 182 members
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Reilly - Ace Of Spies - The Visiting Fireman
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sam Neill
Director: Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard
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Sam Neill stars in this 1983 TV miniseries as Sidney Reilly, an enigmatic spy operating in Europe and Asia. The character is based on a real person, who was the primary inspiration behind the creation of James Bond. This collection presents two more episodes: "The Visiting Fireman" and "Anna."
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My Brilliant Career
(1979)
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes
Director: Gillian Armstrong
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The oldest child of a poor Australian ranch family has aspirations of artistic greatness. However, she finds that she must choose between her dream and her less-than-perfect love affair. Based on the autobiographical novel by Miles Franklin. Academy Award Nominations: Best Costume Design.
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The Triangle
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Sam Neill, Michael Rodgers, Eric Stoltz
Director: Craig R. Baxley
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Billionaire shipping magnate Eric Benirall (Sam Neill) keeps losing ships in the Bermuda Triangle, so he hires a motley band of experts to uncover the mystery that has haunted the Bermuda Triangle for centuries. The team includes Howard Thomas (Eric Stoltz), a tabloid reporter and cynic who only ..read more »
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Scully
(2 discs)
Starring: Andrew Schofield, Ray Kingsley, Sam Neill
Director: Les Chatfield
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
BBC comedy series from 1984 about a 15 year old boy and his dreams to play for his beloved Liverpool F.C. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the two novels 'Scully (1975) and 'Who's ..read more »
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To The Ends Of The Earth
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Neill, Jared Harris
Director: David Attwood
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Dramatic adaptation of William Golding's trilogy 'Rites Of Passage', 'Close Quarters' and 'Fire Down Below'. A young aristocrat boards a war ship heading for Australia, where he will take up a government post. It is not long, however, before the aristocrat's social status begins to cause tension ..read more »
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Event Horizon
to Watch Now
(1997)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 95 minutes
Its name: EVENT HORIZON. The high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal form the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team, headed by the intrepid Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne, THE ..read more »
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Wholly satisfying, well-rounded movie experience 14 July 2004
...Random Hearts with Harrison Ford. Here she's Redford's leading lady, married to Sam Neill, mother to Scarlett Johansson who is left physically and emotionally crippled a...
Excellent telling of the Arthurian legend 4 October 2005
