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Hoskins' height dilemma -
3 July 2009
-Actor Bob Hoskins had to risk his safety and turn stunt-man in his latest TV show - after blundering bosses hired a double who was a foot taller than him.-
-The Mrs Henderson Presents star stands at just five feet six inches (1.67 metres), and often has a stunt doub
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Bob Hoskins - filmography
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Doomsday
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Malcolm McDowell, Bob Hoskins
Director: Neil Marshall
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From director Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) and starring Rhona Mitra (Shooter), Bob Hoskins (Outlaw, Nixon) and Malcom McDowell (Heroes, A Clockwork Orange) Doomsday is an action-packed, science-fiction thriller!
In Doomsday, a lethal virus spreads throughout a major country and ..read more »
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58%
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The Last Word Monologues
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sheila Hancock, Rhys Ifans, Bob Hoskins
Director: Hugo Blick
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Three contemplative monologues about killing: 1, A dying woman waits for the pills that will end her life; 2, A farmer tries to find a way to escape his domineering mother; 3, An assassin awaits in a public toilet for his next target.
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52%
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Doomsday - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins
Director: Neil Marshall
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Writer/director Neil Marshall earned the respect of horror devotees with his first two features, DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT, refreshing and scary twists on the werewolf and expedition-gone-wrong genres. Where those works exemplified a respect for pure horror, devoid of the tension-spoiling comedy ..read more »
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57%
from 1,997 member
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Ruby Blue
(2008)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Josiane Balasko, Jody Latham
Director: Jan Dunn
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An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
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62%
from 9 members
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Outlaw
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Lennie James
Director: Nick Love
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A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
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59%
from 22,295 members
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Sparkle
(2007)
Starring: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head
Director: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
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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.
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69%
from 14 members
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Outlaw - BLU-RAY Version
(2007)
Starring: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Bob Hoskins
Director: Nick Love
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A group of disillusioned citizens who have been the victims of crime decide to organise and take the law into their own hands. After returning to England after fighting in Iraq, Bryant (Sean Bean, THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING) relocates to London. He finds that the area he has ..read more »
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53%
from 326 members
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The Wind In The Willows
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Matt Lucas, Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter
Director: Rachel Talalay
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Live-action adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame classic THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Follow the misadventures of Mole, Ratty, Toad, Badger, and the other eccentric woodland creatures as they get up to all sorts of humourous high jinks. This lavish BBC production features an all-star cast that includes ..read more »
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66%
from 123 members
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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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48%
from 12,649 members
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Mrs Henderson Presents
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young
Director: Stephen Frears
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Wartime entertainment takes a new turn when Mrs Henderson decides to offer an all naked female dance troupe to bring some cheer in times of trouble. Based on true events at the Windmill Theatre in London's West End.
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67%
from 37,344 members
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Unleashed
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins
Director: Louis Leterrier
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Danny has been raised as a slave by a gangster in order to become a violent fighting machine and to in turn compete at illegal gladiator-style fight clubs. But when Danny meets a blind piano tune, he experiences kindness for the first time in his life and his world is thrown into disarray...
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62%
from 24,778 members
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The Sleeping Dictionary
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn
Director: Guy Jenkin
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Jessica Alba plays beautiful young and sultry Selima--the so-called SLEEPING DICTIONARY--who is forced to teach the art of sex in colonial Sarawak. Young, handsome British graduate John Truscott (BLACK HAWK DOWN's Hugh Dancy) is her pupil. Inevitably they become real lovers but must deny their ..read more »
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59%
from 2,459 members
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Where Eskimos Live
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Bob Hoskins
Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski
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The great British actor Bob Hoskins (WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, MERMAIDS) stars in acclaimed director Tomasz Wiszniewski's stirring drama. The story of a man named Sharkey, who sells babies on the black market and his odd yet touching friendship with a young boy named Vlado, whose life has been ..read more »
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58%
from 336 members
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Maid In Manhattan
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson
Director: Wayne Wang
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Director Wayne Wang (THE JOY LUCK CLUB, SMOKE) updates the familiar Cinderella story in this charming romantic comedy. Jennifer Lopez stars as Marissa Ventura, a beautiful young woman who divides her time between her precocious son Ty (Tyler Posey) and her housekeeping duties at The Beresford, an ..read more »
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58%
from 16,699 members
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The Lost World
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, James Fox, Matthew Rhys
Director: Stuart Orme
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This BBC presentation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD follows an early 20th-century expedition to discover the existence of dinosaurs. Led by Professor George Challenger (Bob Hoskins), the party encounters primitive humans and various dinosaurs. The cast also includes James Fox, Peter ..read more »
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66%
from 370 members
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Enemy At The Gates
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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September 1942. The German Army has advanced to the gates of Stalingrad. The Russian Army holds on desperately. It is so poorly equipped that every pair of soldiers is given a single rifle--the second man only gets the weapon when the first is cut down. Trapped in no man's land between the opposing ..read more »
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70%
from 9,189 members
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Last Orders
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class Brits, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of England's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production. Michael Caine stars as Jack Dodd, the ..read more »
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62%
from 2,843 members
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Live Virgin
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Mena Suvari, Robert Loggia
Director: Jean-Pierre Marois
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Katrina Batoloti dreams of becoming an actress, her father, however, wants her to train as a barrister. To assert herself she sets out to lose her virginity live on the internet and pay-per-view television...
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37%
from 168 members
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Felicia's Journey
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Arsinee Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy
Director: Atom Egoyan
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Based on the best-selling novel by Irish author William Trevor, Egoyan's follow-up to his critically acclaimed THE SWEET HEREAFTER is technically impressive in the way it serves up its somber, ghoulish tale. The film is effortlessly smooth, indelibly rendered and yet simultaneously bone-chillingly ..read more »
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60%
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A Room For Romeo Brass
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine
Director: Shane Meadows
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In A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, two teenage boys, Romeo (Andrew Shrim) and Knocks (Ben Marshall), whose families live in the same housing development in a small town in the Midlands, England, share a unique friendship. Making jokes that nobody else understands, fighting over little things, being ..read more »
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74%
from 6,499 members
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Parting Shots
(1999)
Starring: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, Bob Hoskins
Director: Michael Winner
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Harry only has a short time to live - but the prognosis is even worse for his enemies. An all-star cast shines in this hilarious black comedy about getting even - and getting away with it.
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20%
from 9 members
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Captain Jack
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Sadie Frost, Peter McDonald
Director: Robert Young
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Bob Hoskins stars in this charming high seas adventure as Captain Jack, a tough, aging seaman whose travels are now restricted to ferrying tourists around Whitby Bay. Fed up with his now staid life, Jack to decides to retrace the steps of his hero, Captain Scorseby, who sailed from England to Jan ..read more »
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55%
from 246 members
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Cousin Bette
(1998)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins
Director: Des McAnuff
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A spinster, thinks that she takes second place to her cousin Adeline, but she expects to become Lady Hulot on her death and hopes for a marriage proposal from Hector Hulot. But she finds herself offered the post of housekeeper. Deeply upset she leaves for Paris where she plots with Mayor Crevel.
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42%
from 18 members
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Twenty Four Seven
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Frank Harper
Director: Shane Meadows
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From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy strikes. ..read more »
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70%
from 2,892 members
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Spiceworld The Movie
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: The Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore
Director: Bob Spiers
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One of the reasons that the Spice Girls remain so much fun is that in the great British tradition, they don't take themselves too seriously. Like The Beatles before them, the girls are more than happy to take pot-shots at their own manufactured image, something that Spiceworld: The Movie revels in. ..read more »
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46%
from 799 members
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The Secret Agent
(1996)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Christopher Hampton
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The life of an undercover Russian agent, posing as a quiet shopkeeper in London in order to infiltrate a ring of anarchists, is thrown into turmoil when his employers order him to plant a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory. Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad.
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35%
from 20 members
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Nixon
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, James Woods
Director: Oliver Stone
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A surprisingly sympathetic account of the life of Richard Nixon from Oliver Stone, NIXON stars Anthony Hopkins as the former American president. Told out of chronological order, the film traces Nixon's life from his strict Quaker upbringing, through his rise in the Republican party, to his wounding ..read more »
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60%
from 2,696 members
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Balto
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Bridget Fonda, Phil Collins
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Based on the true adventure of an Alaskan sled dog named Balto who trekked across the frozen tundra to deliver a serum to a remote village in 1925, BALTO is a heartwarming animated film that features the voices of Kevin Bacon and Bridget Fonda. Balto, who is half wolf and half dog and therefore an ..read more »
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67%
from 942 members
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The Forgotten Toys
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Joanna Lumley, Clement Freud
Director: Graham Ralph
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Hibbert Ralph presents the heartwarming adventures of the Forgotten Toys, a refined rag doll named Annie and a grumpy teddy bear named Teddy who have been cast aside in favor of newer toys by their fickle owner. In "Forgotten Again," Teddy and Annie find themselves stuffed into a holdall bag, which ..read more »
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59%
from 193 members
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In The Wild - Tigers With Bob Hoskins
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Bob Hoskins
Director: Andrew Jackson
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Actor Bob Hoskins travels the wilds of Indonesia and Nepal in search of the endangered striped cat--and learns first-hand why the tiger is regarded with dread by many natives.
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57%
from 120 members
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Passed Away
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Blair Brown, Tim Curry
Director: Charlie Peters
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A crazy bunch of family members must spend the weekend together when their dear old dad suddenly passes away. Dealing with the grief is easy... dealing with each other isn't...
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46%
from 109 members
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Shattered
(1991)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
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A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
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67%
from 19 members
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Hook
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to ..read more »
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64%
from 11,286 members
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Heart Condition
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb
Director: James D. Parriott
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Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington star in this high-spirited comedy from the producer of Forrest Gump. Hoskins is Moony, an overweight, out-of-shape, narrow minded vice cop who's in love with a hooker named Crystal (Chloe Webb). Washington is Stone, a slick urban lawyer who's defending Crystal. ..read more »
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60%
from 124 members
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Mermaids
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder
Director: Richard Benjamin
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MERMAIDS is the story of the turbulent relationship between a flamboyant, outrageous mom (Cher) and her two daughters (Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci) who just want a normal, stable life. Socially rebellious and provocative, the mother is reluctant to settle down, even at the request of her two ..read more »
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63%
from 3,011 members
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The Raggedy Rawney
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Ian Dury
Director: Bob Hoskins
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After deserting his army post in war-torn Europe, Tom goes on the run and meets up with a girl who disguises him as a woman. Later, he encounters a band of gypsies who think he is female but Jesse, the gypsy leaders's daughter, knows Tom's secret. The situation gets even more complex when she ..read more »
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51%
from 20 members
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Chris Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Someone is out to steal Toon Town from the cartoon characters who inhabit the magical land. But to get their hands on the valuable property, they have framed its biggest star for murder. Detective Eddie Valiant is brought out of a self-enforced retirement to solve the case and save the Toons. A ..read more »
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68%
from 17,641 members
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The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
Director: Jack Clayton
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Lonely Judith Hearne falls for her landlady's brother, Madden, who exudes a certain glamour, having lived in America for thirty years. She seeks romance and he seeks an investor for a business venture. Each is mistaken about the other's feelings and their relationship proceeds in a downward spiral......
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64%
from 88 members
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Sweet Liberty
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Alan Alda, Bob Hoskins, Saul Rubinek
Director: Alan Alda
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A history professor's life and peaceful college town are turned upside down when a film crew turns up to make a movie out of his best-selling novel about the American Revolution.
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58%
from 96 members
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Mona Lisa
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Neil Jordan
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In Neil Jordan's MONA LISA, ex-con George (Bob Hoskins), expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson) to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences--he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and ..read more »
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Mussolini And I
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon
Director: Alberto Negrin
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Bob Hoskins stars as Mussolini in this lavish production which recreates the dramatic events which surrounded the destruction of the powerful Mussolini dynasty that ruled over forty million Italians for more than twenty years.
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58%
from 62 members
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The Dunera Boys
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Bob Hoskins
Director: Ben Lewin
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Tells the true story of a group of Jewish refugees who were sent to Australia by the British as they feared that they were in fact German spies.
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56%
from 32 members
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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Director: Terry Gilliam
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BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ..read more »
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68%
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The Cotton Club
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Bob Hoskins
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Beautiful music and striking dance performances are the highlight of Francis Ford Coppola's musical/mobster flick centered around the legendary Harlem nightclub. The club's black dancers and musicians entertain the exclusively white audience made up of gangsters and Hollywood stars. Local boy Dixie ..read more »
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57%
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Pink Floyd - The Wall
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Pink Floyd, Bob Geldof, Bob Hoskins
Director: Alan Parker
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Loosely based on the life story of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's original front man (who was kicked out of the band for his bizarre and disturbing behavior only to go insane shortly thereafter), PINK FLOYD: THE WALL stars Bob Geldof as Pink, a mentally damaged man who has gone from a hopeful child ..read more »
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The Long Good Friday
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King
Director: John Mackenzie
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John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organised crime organisation to develop the barren Docklands section of London, his ..read more »
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Pennies From Heaven
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cheryl Campbell
Director: Piers Haggard
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Dennis Potter's popular and highly acclaimed TV drama--it won the BAFTA for Outstanding Drama when it first aired in 1978--follows the life of sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker in 1930s Britain. Bob Hoskins plays Parker, a man with a passion for the ladies, and his product, who leads a frustrated ..read more »
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70%
from 822 members
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Othello
on DVD
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins
Director: Colin Lowrey
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Shakespearean drama of jealousy and paranoia, covetousness and intrigue. This is the tragic tale of Othello the Moor and his bride Desdemona, driven to jealousy and death by the malicious plotting of those closest to them. 1978 Jonathan Miller production from the BBC which maintains a close loyalty ..read more »
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59%
from 147 members
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The Beggar's Opera
on DVD
Starring: Roger Daltrey, Bob Hoskins, Stratford Johns
Director: Jonathan Miller
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An exuberant production of a historical adaptation of John Gay's ballad opera which brings to life the corruption, lust and greed of lowlife London. Originally produced for television, this satirical comedy concerning London bums and lowlifes stars serious acclaimed actor Bob Hoskins (of WHO FRAMED ..read more »
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from 31 members
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A Christmas Carol
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Collin Firth
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
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53%
from 10 members
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Charles Dickens Collection
(8 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Hordern, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins
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Featuring a box set of the BBC adaptations of popular tales from Charles Dickens. Includes: 'The Pickwick Papers', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Martin Chuzzlewit', 'David Copperfield', 'A Tale Of Two Cities', 'Great Expectations', and 'Our Mutual Friend'.
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Last Orders
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Starring: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Run time: 100 minutes
Four old friends drift towards their favourite watering hole - The Coach and Horses, but this time they seem a little reluctant. Ray , Vic and Lenny have gathered to fulfil the last order of their lifelong friend Jack. The mood is quieter than usual as they raise a glass to Jack for the last time ..read more »
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A trip to the other side!! 22 June 2005
... leading role with the soundtrack in second place and even a suprise cameo from Bob Hoskins!
The extras are insightful and extremely well presented and well worth a loo...
Brass In Pocket 26 May 2007
