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Aidan Quinn's helicopter lands on Northern Irish family's lawn -
29 June 2012
-Actor Aidan Quinn surprised a family in Northern Ireland on Tuesday when his helicopter pilot was forced to make an unexpected landing on their lawn due to bad weather.-The Desperately Seeking Susan star was making his way from Connemara in Ireland to Portrush in No
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Quinn wants to trace Irish roots on TV -
14 September 2009
-Actor Aidan Quinn is hoping he'll be a part of the new trend in family tree reality shows - because he'd like to learn more about his Irish roots.-
-The Legends of The Fall star wants to be featured on actress Lisa Kudrow's U.S. show Who Do You Think You Are? becaus
Aidan Quinn - what members say
review by A customer from Brighton
This is one of my favourite films ever. An enthusiastic 10 out of 10. 12 June 2007
review by A customer from London, England
Not as good as I hoped 26 November 2005
review by Libertine85 from Chertsey
2 hours of my life I won't get back.... 5 May 2009
Aidan Quinn - filmography
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If I Were You
(2012)
Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling, Joseph Kell
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
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When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
 
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Unknown
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra, Simon Brand
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A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
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Unknown - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra, Simon Brand
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A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
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The 5th Quarter
(2011)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Aidan Quinn, Ryan Merriman
Director: Rick Bieber
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An emotional, true story about family, inspiration, football and the gift of life. When a tragic car crash claims the life of 15-year-old Luke Abbate, his older brother Jon considers ending his own college football career but instead decides to honor his brother's memory and continue playing. With ..read more »
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Flipped
(2010)
Starring: Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe, Rebecca De Mornay
Director: Rob Reiner
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When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school ..read more »
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Jonah Hex - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Will Arnett, Megan Fox, Josh Brolin
Director: Jimmy Hayward
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Western action based on the DC Comics series. Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a Civil War veteran and bounty hunter with the ability to converse with the dead. Jonah unintentionally kills the son of his Commanding Officer Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich)'s son when he saves a hospital and, seeking ..read more »
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Jonah Hex
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, Megan Fox
Director: Jimmy Hayward
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Out of the pages of the legendary comics and graphic novels steps Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin), a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort who can track anyone...and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend and has left him with one foot in the ..read more »
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Handsome Harry
(2010)
Starring: Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi, Mariann Mayberry
Director: Bette Gordon
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Harry, a divorced father and former sailor, lives a simple life in his small town. But when his dying best friend inspires Harry to confront his past, buried secrets resurface and force him to deal with painful memories.
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The Eclipse
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle
Director: Conor McPherson
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A widower sees and hears peculiar things in his house. His life crosses paths with a beautiful author of supernatural fiction and an egotistical pop novelist at an international literary festival that will change their lives in surprising ways.
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A Shine of Rainbows
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Jack Gleeson, Connie Nielsen
Director: Vic Sarin
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Irish family drama based on the novel by Lillian Beckwith. Connie Nielson stars as Maire O'Donnell, a fisherman's wife on the remote Corrie Island who adopts a shy young orphan, Tomas (John Bell). On the island, Maire teaches Tomas the local folklore, including the secret of the seals, and ..read more »
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Wild Child - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson
Director: Nicholas Moore
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Teen comedy. When pampered LA princess Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) is sent off to a strict English boarding school after pushing her indulgent father too far with an over-the-top prank, she decides to do everything she can to get expelled from the school as quickly as possible - including snogging ..read more »
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Wild Child
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Nick Frost
Director: Nicholas Moore
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Wild Child tells the comic story of sixteen year old Poppy (Emma Roberts), a rebellious American teenager who, after numerous warnings by her father (Aidan Quinn), is sent to a strict all-girls boarding school in the U.K. in an attempt to straighten out her behaviour. Under the watchful eye of the ..read more »
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Dark Matter
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sina Amedson, Aidan Quinn, Erick Avari
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen
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Inspired by actual events, director Chen Shi-Zheng's socially conscious psychological drama follows the journey of an ambitious Chinese scientist working towards his Ph.D. in America, only to be marginalized to the extent that he ultimately loses his way.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Anna Paquin, August Schellenberg
Director: Yves Simoneau
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Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, this Western intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (August ..read more »
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Exonerated
(2005)
Starring: Danny Glover, Aidan Quinn, Brian Dennehy
Director: Bob Balaban
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Hard-hitting dramatic account of real life events that befell six innocent people who all suffered the fate of being wrongly convicted of murder, only to be exonerated after losing years of their lives to the failings of a negligent justice system. Drawing upon the individuals' accounts and ..read more »
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Shadow Of Fear
(2004)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, James Spader, Matthew Davis
Director: Rich Cowan
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Low-budget psychological thriller. Harrison French (Matt Davis) accidentally kills someone and finds himself drawn into a web of deceit against a background of wealth and luxury as he's forced to perform terrible acts of violence by crooked lawyer William Ashbury (James Spader).
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Convicted
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, Kelly Preston
Director: Bille August
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Drama starring Aidan Quinn as Frank Nitzche, a man who makes friends with prisoners on Death row, gets their story and then sells them to the papers. On this occasion he talks to a child murderer and believes that there is a chance that she may be innocent and so he tries to find out the truth and ..read more »
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from 2,422 members
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Field Of Honour
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Aidan Quinn
Director: Mikael Salomon
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Made-for-TV historical drama starring Aidan Quinn and Kelsey Grammer. Grammer plays America's first President, George Washington, while Quinn plays Benedict Arnold - a man initially known as a war hero and one of the American Revolution's most respected military figures, but whose fervent ..read more »
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Song For A Raggy Boy
(2003)
Starring: Marc Warren, Aidan Quinn, Dudley Sutton
Director: Aisling Walsh
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William Franklin (Aidan Quinn) becomes the first non-cleric teacher at St. Jude's, an Irish school for wayward boys run by Brother John (Iain Glen). Brother John believes in strong discipline and Franklin soon feels that the boys are treated with excessive force. As Brother John becomes even more ..read more »
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Evelyn
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Poignant family drama set in 1950s Ireland and based on a true story. Pierce Brosnan stars as Desmond Doyle, a painter/decorator whose wife walks out on the marriage and their three children, leaving him to bring them up himself and earn money to support the family. But his erratic employment leads ..read more »
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Prince And The Pauper
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Jonathan Timmins, Robert Timmins
Director: Giles Foster
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This production beautifully adapts Mark Twain's 1881 novel to the screen. A magical story about two boys--one is a royal prince and the other is a poor, mistreated urchin--who switch social positions by merely exchanging clothes, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER is both a fantastic adventure and a ..read more »
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In Dreams
(1999)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Paul Guilfoyle, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
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Annette Bening plays Claire Cooper, a woman whose idyllic New England existence is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious and psychotic serial killer (Robert Downey Jr.). Not only does the murderer wreak havoc upon the community, but he also starts to appear in Claire's dreams, leaving clues as ..read more »
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Practical Magic
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Goran Visnjic, Aidan Quinn
Director: Griffin Dunne
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Sisters Sally and Gillian Owens (Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman) are both afflicted by the same curse - their lovers always die before their time. Two new suitors are on the scene (Aidan Quinn and Goran Visnjic), but it may take a few spells from the sisters' supernaturally gifted aunts (Dianne ..read more »
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This Is My Father
(1998)
Starring: James Caan, Aidan Quinn, John Cusack
Director: Paul Quinn
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This rural Ireland-set drama is a family affair: Paul Quinn writes and directs, his brother Declan is the cinematographer, and Aidan - the most famous of the three brothers - stars. When middle-aged teacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) comes across a mysterious photo from his mother's past, he ..read more »
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Commandments
(1997)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Courteney Cox, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: Daniel Taplitz
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Aidan Quinn plays a man so aggrieved by his misfortunes that he vows to break each of God's Ten Commandments in revenge. But even that act of profound defiance doesn't quite work out the way he planned, and the character undergoes a mythic - some would say biblical - experience of a different kind.
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The Assignment
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Liliana Komorowska, Ben Kingsley, Aidan Quinn
Director: Christian Duguay
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American naval officer Annibal Ramirez (Aidan Quinn) bears an uncanny resemblance to the infamous terrorist Carlos 'The Jackal'. CIA spy Jack Shaw (Donald Sutherland) and his Israeli counterpart Amos (Ben Kingsley) hatch a plan to lure Carlos into a trap, using his doppelganger as bait. However, ..read more »
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from 772 members
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Looking For Richard
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Aidan Quinn, Al Pacino
Director: Al Pacino
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A workshop of William Shakespeare's Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino's breezy documentary, which aims to make the playwright accessible to contemporary American audiences. Though a noteworthy cast of stage actors and Hollywood stars (including Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, and Alec ..read more »
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Michael Collins
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Neil Jordan
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The rise and fall of one of the most important and controversial figures in Ireland's struggle for independence is chronicled in this biographical drama. In 1916, the British government ruled Ireland with a firm and cruel hand, as they had for 700 years. When a group of Irish rebels staged a six-..read more »
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
(1995)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher
Director: James Keach
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This character drama follows the exploits of an aged oil seeker, known only as Mr. Cox, as he roams across Texas in search of black gold. He has a special gift for it and has helped many wildcatters strike it rich. Unfortunately, he has yet to find his own gusher. In 1935, Cox has only a suitcase ..read more »
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Haunted
(1995)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Gielgud
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at ease and convince her she is just tired and stressed. But soon after arriving ..read more »
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from 485 members
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Legends Of The Fall
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Anthony Hopkins, Gordon Tootoosis
Director: Edward Zwick
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US Cavalry officer Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) takes early retirement after despairing of the Government's treatment of the Western Tribes. In the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies he builds a ranch where he brings up his three sons. When the youngest son Samuel (Henry Thomas) ..read more »
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Richard Briers, John Cleese
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Kenneth Branagh stars in and directs this adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror yarn. Obsessed with creating life, Victor Frankenstein (Branagh) harnesses the power of electricity in order to reanimate the body of a once-dead criminal (Robert De Niro). When he then witnesses the abhorrence of ..read more »
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Legends Of The Fall - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Anthony Hopkins, Gordon Tootoosis
Director: Edward Zwick
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US Cavalry officer Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) takes early retirement after despairing of the Government's treatment of the Western Tribes. In the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies he builds a ranch where he brings up his three sons. When the youngest son Samuel (Henry Thomas) ..read more »
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Benny and Joon
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: William H. Macy, Aidan Quinn, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a mentally-disturbed young woman who spends her time painting. She lives with her over-protective brother Benny (Aidan Quinn), who cares for her while ignoring his own needs. One day Sam (a Buster Keaton-impersonating Johnny Depp) enters their lives and falls in love ..read more »
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Blink
(1993)
Starring: James Remar, Aidan Quinn, Peter Friedman
Director: Michael Apted
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Madeleine Stowe plays Emma Brody, a woman blind from birth, who after a successful cornea operation starts to regain her sight. In the early stages of her recovery, she suffers from retroactive vision, a visual 'echo' whereby she has sudden crystal clear flashbacks of images she had originally ..read more »
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The Playboys
(1992)
Starring: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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A young woman, Tara Maguire scandalises her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty. The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, ..read more »
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At Play In the Fields of the Lord
(1991)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn
Director: Hector Babenco
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Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort ..read more »
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Avalon
(1990)
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright
Director: Barry Levinson
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The third installment in Barry Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy, AVALON tells the story of a Jewish family immigrating to the United States in pursuit of the American dream. Starting in the early 1900s, the Krichinsky brothers begin to arrive in America one at a time, scrimping and saving to pay for ..read more »
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The Handmaid's Tale
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate (Richardson) possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control, violently if necessary... fertility. Forced into a brain-washing bootcamp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-..read more »
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Stakeout
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Richard Dreyfuss, Aidan Quinn
Director: John Badham
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Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) are mismatched cops who are given the task of keeping a beautiful woman's (Madeleine Stowe) house under surveillance, as her ex-boyfriend is a thug they are trying to catch. The case becomes more complicated when Lecce becomes ..read more »
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The Mission
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Aidan Quinn, Ray McAnally
Director: Roland Joffe
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The story of the conflict between slave-traders and Jesuits during the colonisation of South America by Spain and Portugal. In 1750 Jesuit priest Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) arrives in the Amazon to build a mission for the Guarani Indians. He comes into conflict with slave trader Mendoza (Robert De Niro)..read more »
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Desperately Seeking Susan
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Susan Seidelman
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A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark ..read more »
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...n some good nuances that help leaven the otherwise negative portrayal of 'Dev'. Aidan Quinn is also excellent as Harry Boland, and it is in the depiction of the changing r...
