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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 London, England
Not as good as I hoped 26 November 2005
review by from Bristol, UK
GOOD ENTERTAINMENT 10 February 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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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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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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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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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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Jonah Hex - Blu-ray
(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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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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A Shine of Rainbows
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, John Bell
Director: Vic Sarin
Certificate: 
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Maire O'Donnell is a loving woman as rare as a double rainbow. Joyful, warm and caring, she adopts a young orphan named Tomas and whisks him off to a new home on remote Corrie Island, off the coast of Ireland. Maire shares with Tomas the joys of her island home and introduces him to the whimsical ..read more »
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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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Wild Child - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Nick Frost
Director: Nicholas Moore
Certificate: 
NANCY DREW's Emma Roberts does a 180 from the well-behaved teen detective to become a WILD CHILD in this comedy. Poppy is a spoiled and selfish princess living in Los Angeles, but her parents have decided to end her reign by sending her to a prim and proper boarding school in England.
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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: Meryl Streep, Ye Liu, Aidan Quinn
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen
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Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, Anna Paquin
Director: Yves Simoneau
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BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE follows in the footsteps of fellow high-quality HBO productions such as DEADWOOD. The action begins at Little Big Horn with the Sioux triumph over General Custer, and then continues by following three key figures from the battle. The production stars Adam Beach, August ..read more »
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Exonerated
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Brian Dennehy, Susan Sarandon
Director: Bob Balaban
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Court TV's THE EXONERATED is a conscience-pricking docudrama about six real-life death-row inmates who faced last minute reprieves on the eves of their executions due to newly acquired DNA evidence. Director Bob Balaban (best known for his role as Russell Dalrymple on SEINFELD) assembles a top ..read more »
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May Day
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Dean Cain, Kelly Hu
Director: T.J. Scott
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When a stray U.S. Navy test missile hits a jumbo airliner, killing most of its passengers and crew, the remaining survivors must safely land the crippled plane. Pacific Global Flight 52 is on a routine trip from the United States to Tokyo, when it is hit by the wayward missile, causing severe ..read more »
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Convicted
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, Kelly Preston
Director: Bille August
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Frank Nitzche 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 save her from execution.
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Shadow Of Fear
(2004)
Starring: Matthew Davis, James Spader, Aidan Quinn
Director: Rich Cowan
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Harrison French's life is crumbling around him; he is faced with losing everything when a financial deal collapses, and he is forced to hide the body of a man whom his car hit and killed. When a rich businessman offers to solve his problems, French accepts, but first he must admit to his guilty ..read more »
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Field Of Honour
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer
Director: Mikael Salomon
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Based on a true story. Benedict Arnold is a heroic military leader, willing to die for the cause. However, when he falls in love with Peggy, a British sympathiser, he is blinded by desire and an increasing rivalry toward his commander, leading him onto the path of treason.
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Song For A Raggy Boy
(2003)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Ian Glen, Dudley Sutton
Director: Aisling Walsh
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SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY is a very grim story based on true events. Aidan Quinn plays William Franklin, who on his return from the Spanish Civil War takes a job at a boys Catholic Reform School in 1939 Ireland. He soon witnesses the priests systematic cruelty and abuse of the boys, but is warned to ..read more »
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Stolen Summer
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak
Director: Pete Jones
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On being told by a nun to follow the path of the lord and not of the devil, Pete, a young Catholic boy, decides to spend his summer vacation helping someone guarantee their entrance into heaven. Since his only knowledge of the divine comes from his upbringing, Pete decides to convert a Rabbi to the ..read more »
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Evelyn
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Set in Dublin in 1953, Desmond Doyle is struggling to find steady work and is faced with raising his three children alone after his wife walks out on him. The Irish Church steps in and places the children in separate Catholic orphanages. Desmond works hard to pay off his debts in order for his ..read more »
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In Dreams
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
Certificate: 
This darkly imaginative film from director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE) follows Claire, a psychic New England housewife (Annette Bening) who loses her grip on reality when her dreams connect with those of a psychotic child murderer (Robert Downey Jr.). Centered around a ..read more »
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Practical Magic
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Dianne Wiest
Director: Griffin Dunne
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This romantic comedy, which is based on Alice Hoffman's best-selling novel, introduces the Owens sisters (Bullock and Kidman), who try to use their hereditary gift of witchcraft to help them find love. Collector's Edition includes documentary featuring behind the scenes interviews with the ..read more »
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This Is My Father
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Cusack, James Caan, Aidan Quinn
Director: Paul Quinn
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Caan portrays a disillusioned Chicago high-school teacher who decides to make a pilgrimage to Ireland to learn the truth about his father, whom he never met. He takes along his troubled nephew, who spends his days falling in love with a local school girl. The film shifts between the present and the ..read more »
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The Assignment
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
Director: Christian Duguay
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A CIA agent obsessed with apprehending infamous international terrorist Carlos "The Jackal" deploys a U.S. Navy man--who resembles Carlos exactly--in his scheme to discredit the legendary mercenary in the eyes of his employers. A complex psychological suspenser elevated above the bulging ranks of ..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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Looking For Richard
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey
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: Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman
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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from 3,923 members
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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 194 members
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Legends Of The Fall - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn
Director: Edward Zwick
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Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an idealistic retired colonel who disapproves of the war and the army's indecent treatment of Native Americans. Abandoned by his blue-..read more »
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. He succeeds in his quest to create a man, but his creature (Robert De Niro) is both revolting and ..read more »
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Legends Of The Fall
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn
Director: Edward Zwick
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Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an idealistic retired colonel who disapproves of the war and the army's indecent treatment of Native Americans. Abandoned by his blue-..read more »
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Benny and Joon
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), a mentally disturbed young woman, lives with her older (and over-protective) brother, Benny (Aidan Quinn). He puts up with the untenable situation because of his love for her and his dislike of institutions. Just when their relationship reaches a point where things ..read more »
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Blink
(1993)
Starring: Madeline Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar
Director: Michael Apted
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Blind since she was child, Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe) experiences a miracle--a dead woman's eyes have been donated to her, allowing Emma to see again. But before she's had the opportunity to grow accustomed to her blurry vision, she witnesses a brutal murder. Working with a handsome detective (..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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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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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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Stakeout
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Richard Dreyfuss, Madeline Stowe
Director: John Badham
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While on an FBI stakeout, detective Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) falls hard for Maria (Madeleine Stowe), the woman he's supposed to be watching. Soon he's inside her home enjoying a torrid love affair, while his young partner Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez), waits across the street, looking through ..read more »
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The Mission
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Director: Roland Joffe
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A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South ..read more »
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Desperately Seeking Susan
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Robert Jay
Director: Susan Seidelman
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Bored New Jersey housewife, Roberta (Rosanna Arquette), fills her days by reading the personal ads and following an ongoing romance between Jim (Robert Joy) and Susan (Madonna), a mysterious drifter who appears to lead the kind of free-spirited life about which Roberta can only dream. And dream she ..read more »
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The Playboys
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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Prince And The Pauper
on DVD
Starring: Alan Bates, Aidan Quinn, Jonathan 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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... Kingsly provide a reasonable performance, but I had great difficulty accepting Aidan Quinn as a baddie - and the dual role he plays was just too confusing in the end. ...
