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John Wood - what members say
review by from London
Now is the winter of our discontent. 2 February 2006
review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
superb 10 April 2007
John Wood - filmography
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White Countess
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Madeleine Potter, Ralph Fiennes
Director: James Ivory
Certificate: 
Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years ..read more »
 
57%
from 4,747 members
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Goodbye Mr Chips
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Victoria Hamilton, Conleth Hill, Patrick Malahide
Director: Stuart Orme
Certificate: 
Martin Clunes stars in a TV adaptation of the classic story about a shy and dedicated teacher, Charles Edward Chipping, who finds love while walking in the alps. The unconvential Katherine Bridges (Victoria Hamilton) shakes up Chipping's mundane life and brings him great happiness; but due to an ..read more »
72%
from 882 members
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The Body
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, Derek Jacobi
Director: Jonas McCord
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When an ancient tomb is discovered in Jerusalem containing what appears to be the body of Jesus, rugged priest Father Matt Gutierrez (Antonio Banderas) is dispatched by the Vatican to investigate. After meeting Dr Sharon Golban (Olivia Williams), the fiesty archaeologist responsible for finding the ..read more »
56%
from 621 members
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Chocolat - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hugh O'Conor, Lena Olin
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Certificate:
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In a small old-fashioned French town, single-mother Vianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives with her six-year-old daughter, and opens up a chocolate shop. Vianne creates some mouth-watering sweets which inspire the usually dull villagers to indulge their temptations and experience some true happiness. ..read more »
72%
from 414 members
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The Little Vampire
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Anna Popplewell, Alice Krige, Jim Carter
Director: Uli Edel
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
It is not easy being a 9 year old in a new country. Tony has just moved with his parents, Dottie and Bob Thompson, from a big bustling city in America to a small village in a remote corner of Scotland. Every night, in his new home, Tony has nightmares about vampires, and he has no idea why. He ..read more »
65%
from 1,863 member
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Chocolat
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hugh O'Conor, Lena Olin
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Certificate:
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When Vianne, a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. Within days, Vianne opens a very unusual chocolate shop, ..read more »
71%
from 41,728 members
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An Ideal Husband
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Jeremy Northam, Jeroen Krabbe
Director: Oliver Parker
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In a moment of youthful indiscretion, Sir Robert Chiltern provided an Austrian baron with secret Foreign Office information. As payment he received the money that became the basis of his fortune and of his splendid, otherwise unimpeachable government career. Years later, he is blackmailed by a ..read more »
63%
from 4,346 members
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Jane Eyre
(1996)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Fiona Shaw, Anna Paquin
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, beginning with a condensed look at the troubled childhood of ..read more »
64%
from 2,078 members
Currently unavailable
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Richard III
(1995)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jim Broadbent
Director: Richard Loncraine
Certificate: 
Sir Ian McKellen takes the title role in this updated version of Shakespeare's play, based on Richard Eyre's acclaimed theatrical production. After a blood-soaked civil war in 1930s London, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays claim to the English throne. The deformed monarch-apparent uses all his ..read more »
68%
from 2,226 members
Currently unavailable
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Sabrina
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Randy Becker, Nancy Marchand
Director: Sydney Pollack
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A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up enchanted ..read more »
62%
from 4,792 members
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Uncovered
(1994)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, John Wood
Director: Jim McBride
Certificate: 
When art restorer Julia (Kate Beckinsdale) discovers a painting linked to centuries old murders, she finds that a new wave of murders might have been triggered. As more people start to die, she tries to find the reason behind the murders, and the killer.
49%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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The Young Americans
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Thandie Newto, Viggo Mortensen
Director: Danny Cannon
Certificate: 
John Harris (Harvey Keitel), a tough New York narcotics cop is seconded to London apparently to help Scotland Yard unravel a spate of drug-related killings resulting from the expansion of America's drug racketeers into Europe. Privately, however, his aim is to nail Carl Fraser (Viggo Mortensen), ..read more »
55%
from 1,426 member
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Shadowlands
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, James Frain, Michael Denison
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Richard Attenborough directs this adaptation of William Nichoson's play based on the true story of the love affair between C.S. Lewis and American Joy Gresham. Oxford don and acclaimed novelist (The Narnia Chronicles) C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) lives a quiet and reflective existence with his ..read more »
69%
from 9,019 members
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Orlando
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Heathcote Williams, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane
Director: Sally Potter
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Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story ..read more »
62%
from 3,834 members
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Orlando - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau
Director: Sally Potter
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Sally Potter's dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel is the tale of the apparently immortal Orlando, who begins an epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth I as a man, and completes the search 400 years later as a woman. This journey takes Orlando across the frozen ..read more »
61%
from 90 members
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Thatcher - The Final Days
(1991)
Starring: Trevor Bowen, John Wood, Sylvia Syms
Director: Tim Sullivan
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Documentary-drama which tells the story of Margaret Thatcher's final days as leader of the Conservative Party and Great Britain. Thatcher is arguably one of the most controversial prime ministers in British history. Her forthright style and often equally blunt policies led some to dub her The Iron ..read more »
34%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Roscoe, Stephen Collins, Sara Botsford
Director: Penny Marshall
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Whoopi Goldberg plays a bored computer operator who recieves an appeal for help on her screen from a British agent caught in Eastern Europe. She finds herself being drawn into the world of espionage, but manages to strike an effective balance between humour and intrigue. A directorial debut for ..read more »
68%
from 4,795 members
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Lady Jane
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Jane Lapotaire, John Wood
Director: Trevor Nunn
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Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. Lady Jane Grey's sickly cousin, who becomes Edward VI upon the death of Henry VIII, is on the threshold of death himself. The Protestant powers-that-be, ..read more »
66%
from 1,601 member
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WarGames
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Barry Corbin
Director: John Badham
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, Global ..read more »
69%
from 7,394 members
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WarGames - Blu-ray
(1983)
Starring: Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Barry Corbin
Director: John Badham
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Matthew Broderick (Ferris Buellers Day Off) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action, suspense and high-tech adventures. Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin, WarGames is brilliant...funny...and provocative (New York)--a ..read more »
76%
from 33 members
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That Kind Of Girl
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Max Faulkner, Linda Marlowe, David Weston
Director: Gerry O'Hara
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Gerry O'Hara directs this morality tale on the dangers of promiscuous sex and 'loose women of easy virtue'. In the hip and rebellious early 1960s, Austrian girl-about-town Eva (Margaret Rose Keil) arrives in a quiet English village and quickly sets about seducing the male population. As her ..read more »
58%
from 71 members
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...d by a whos-who of fine British charactor actors: Jim Broadbent, Adrian Dunbar, John Wood, Bill Patterson, Nigel Hawthorne and many more. Annette Benning is stunning as ...
