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  • Liam
  • Liam review by A customer from Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars LIAM 5 June 2005
    ...n pride, poverty and insecurity. The actor who played Liam was truly brilliant. Anne Reid was disappointing as she turned her character almost into a comedy figure at ti...   Read customer review
  • The Mother
  • The Mother review by from Essex
    Rated - 4.0 stars Anne Reid was robbed at the BAFTAs 9 August 2004
    ... does not do the players any favours but I was blown away by the performance of Anne Reid and thought she was robbed at the Baftas. All the characters are pathetic sp...   Read customer review
  • Life Begins - Series 1
  • Life Begins - Series 1 review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Excellent, well worth watching. 4 October 2005
    ...perb writing and excellent performances from Caroline Quentin, Frank Finlay and Anne Reid. Well done Mike Bullen for yet another outstanding drama. ...   Read customer review

Anne Reid - filmography


  • Foster (2011)
    Starring: Maurice Cole,  Toni Collette,  Ioan Gruffudd
    Director: Jonathan Newman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrison's lives are turned upside down when a 7 year old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.
    4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 4 members
    Due for release on 13th August 2012
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  • Marchlands (2 discs) on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Dean Andrews,  Alex Kingston,  Jodie Whittaker
    Director: Stephen Greenhorn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MARCHLANDS is the enthralling story of three families linked across three decades by the chilling mysteries locked inside their home. The tragic death of an eight year old girl in 1968 sets in motion the haunting story of Marchlands; a remote house in the North of England. In 1987 we meet the house'..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,353 member
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  • Upstairs Downstairs (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keeley Hawes,  Ed Stoppard,  Anne Reid
    Director: Eros Lyn,  Saul Metzstein
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the most loved television series is brought back to life with a stellar cast, sumptuous production values and gripping storylines, lifting the curtain on a historical era. In the summer of 1930, the Bellamy family left its home in London's Belgravia forever. In the empty house, loyal ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 630 members
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  • Five Days 2 (2 discs) on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Shaun Dooley,  Steve Evets,  Shivani Ghai
    Director: Toby Haynes,  Peter Hoar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A tiny newborn baby is abandoned in the toilets of a Yorkshire hospital. At the same time, the Trans-Pennine commuter train is halted by a suicidal jumper - are they connected? From this moment on, the lives of those on board the train and in the hospital will be changed irrevocably, not least for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 131 members
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  • Ladies Of Letters (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Anne Reid,  Maureen Lipman,  Morag Siller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    For Irene (Lipman) and Vera (Reid) a tipsy under-the-table conversation at a wedding sparks a correspondence of exploits and adventures of blissful holidays, delicious recipes and grateful grandchildren. As the pensioner pen-pals keep their spirits up with sherry and shared recipes, their attempts ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 208 members
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  • Savage Grace on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Julianne Moore,  Stephen Dillane,  Eddie Redmayne
    Director: Tom Kalin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The true story of the beautiful and charismatic Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father's eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 4,649 members
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  • Affinity on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Anna Madeley,  Zoe Tapper,  Domini Blythe
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium. Set in the 1870s.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,173 members
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  • Hot Fuzz on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Tim Barlow,  Bill Ni,  Anne Reid
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 103,319 members
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  • Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Anne Reid,  Steve Coogan,  Nick Frost
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,095 members
    Not currently released
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  • Hot Fuzz - HD (2007)
    Starring: Tim Barlow,  Anne Reid,  Steve Coogan
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,670 member
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  • Bad Mother's Handbook on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Catherine Tate,  Holly Grainger,  Anne Reid
    Director: Robin Sheppard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A dark Northern comedy based on the best selling book by Kate Long, The Bad Mother’s Handbook tells the story of a year in the life of 3 generations of women living in one house in Bolton. The main theme revolves around the fact that Karen (Catherine Tate) had her now teenage daughter Charlie (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,344 member
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  • The Mother on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Anne Reid,  Daniel Craig,  Steven Mackintosh
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The sensitive and controversial story of romance across the generation gap. A recently widowed woman May (an astonishing Anne Reid) seduces and develops a close, passionate and complex relationship with her own daughter's lover (an irresistible, bearded Daniel Craig). Powerful, believable ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,813 members
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  • Liam on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ian Hart,  Claire Hackett,  Anne Reid
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Originally produced for the B.B.C., director Stephen Frears masterfully crafts this poignant portrait of one family's attempt to stay afloat in impoverished 1930s England. The political, religious, and economic strife of pre-Word War II Liverpool is seen through the eyes of Liam (Anthony Burrows), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 409 members
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  • Booze Cruise - Series 1 - 3 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Martin Clunes,  Neil Pearson,  Mark Benton
    Director: Paul Seed
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Booze Cruise Martin Clunes and Neil Pearson star as unlikely travelling companions on a cross channel jaunt to find cheap booze. Their journey to a French hypermarket hits stormy waters and a simple shopping expedition turns into a nightmare - never mind all the shenanigans that are going on at ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 374 members
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Anne Reid facts

5 most recent films

Foster - 4.5 stars
Upstairs Downstairs - Series 2 - 3.0 stars
Marchlands - 4.0 stars
Upstairs Downstairs - 4.0 stars
Five Days 2 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Dinnerladies - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - HD - 4.0 stars
Dinnerladies - Series 2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Foster - 4.5 stars
Savage Grace - 2.5 stars
Affinity - 3.0 stars
The Mother - 3.0 stars
Faintheart - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maureen Lipman - 6 times - show films
Morag Siller - 6 times - show films
Daniel Crowder - 6 times - show films
Paul Chahidi - 6 times - show films
Victoria Wood - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Paul Seed - 5 times - show films
none - 4 times - show films
Edgar Wright - 3 times - show films
John Henderson - 3 times - show films
Eros Lyn - 3 times - show films