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Albert Finney
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Albert Finney - filmography
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Amazing Grace
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Rufus Sewell
Director: Michael Apted
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"Amazing Grace" is based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce (Gruffudd), who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Elected to the House of Commons at the age of 21, and on his way to a ...
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Big Fish
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Edward Bloom has always told tall tales of his life, that charm everyone apart from his son Will. When Will's mother Sandra tries to bring the pair back together, Will must try and learn what parts of his father's epic tales of giants, witches and blizzards are fact and which are fiction.
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Big Fish - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant ...
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My Uncle Silas - The First Complete Series
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Albert Finney, Joe Prospero, Sue Johnston
Director: Philip Saville
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Based on the short stories of H.E. Bates. A young boy called Edward goes to stay with his Uncle Silas for the Summer. Silas is a loveable rogue and Edward is set to have many adventures. Episodes include: 'The Wedding', 'Queenie White', 'The Blue Feather', 'The Widder', 'Silas And Goliath' and 'The ...
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Erin Brockovich - BLU-RAY Version
(2000)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Albert Finney
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Julia Roberts reaffirms her superstar status with ERIN BROCKOVICH, an inspirational drama that is based on a true story. Roberts plays Erin Brockovich, a twice-divorced mother of three who is struggling to remain afloat. After she is involved in a car accident, she loses what should have been a ...
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Traffic
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Catherine Zeta Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless ...
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Erin Brockovich
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Albert Finney
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Julia Roberts reaffirms her superstar status with ERIN BROCKOVICH, an inspirational drama that is based on a true story. Roberts plays Erin Brockovich, a twice-divorced mother of three who is struggling to remain afloat. After she is involved in a car accident, she loses what should have been a ...
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Simpatico
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte
Director: Matthew Warchus
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Based on the play by Shepard, SIMPATICO is the tale of a childhood friendship gone sour. When Lyle, a successful horse breeder in Kentucky, receives a desperate phone call from Vinnie, a troubled barfly living in Southern California, their shady past threatens to ruin them both once and for all. As ...
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A Man Of No Importance
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon
Director: Suri Krishnamma
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The passengers on bus conductor Alfie Byrne's route are treated daily to excerpts from Oscar Wilde. Each year he produces a play in the church community hall and this year wants to produce 'Salome'. He finds his leading lady in the form of Adele but being homosexual is unhappy when his sister Lily ...
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The Browning Version
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Greta Scacchi
Director: Mike Figgis
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Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a private school, is dubbed the 'Hitler of the Lower Sixth' by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school--forced into ...
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Miller's Crossing
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Joel Coen
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An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just as this threat erupts, the two sever their friendship when they realize that they love the same woman (Marcia ...
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The Dresser
on DVD (1983)
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
Director: Peter Yates
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THE DRESSER is Peter Yates' intriguing look behind the scenes of a touring stage company in war-torn England, based on Ronald Harwood's play. Albert Finney stars as Sir, the ageing manager and lead actor of the troupe who begins to come undone from the pressure of touring in bombed-ravaged England. ...
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Annie
on DVD (1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett
Director: John Huston
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The acclaimed and infectious stage musical gets the big screen treatment. Annie is a red-haired mop-top orphan (Aileen Quinn), yearning to break out of her dreary life in an orphanage run by an iron-fisted, boozy matron Miss Hannigan. But the little auburn angel manages to charm billionaire Oliver "...
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The Duellists
on DVD (1977)
Starring: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox
Director: Ridley Scott
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"To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists, trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage." Thus wrote Joseph Conrad in the opening paragraphs of the story that provides the basis for Ridley ...
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Scrooge
on DVD (1970)
Starring: Albert Finney
Director: Ronald Neame
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A delightful musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic starring Albert Finney in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, the cold-hearted miser visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve.
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Two For The Road
on DVD (1966)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron
Director: Stanley Donen
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After 12 years of marriage, British couple Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney find themselves wondering whether they should continue forward through life together or go their separate ways. Bickering and bliss get equal time as husband and wife remember the past in its sunny and stormy times, and ...
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Tom Jones
on DVD (1963)
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Diane Cilento
Director: Tony Richardson
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Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Fielding's classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he's raised by her employer, the aptly ...
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The Entertainer
on DVD (1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
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Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of Britain's New Wave kitchen-sink realism, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne, by starring as third-rate seaside comedian Archie Rice ...
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Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
(1960)
Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Hylda Baker
Director: Karel Reisz
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Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in ...
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The Green Man
on DVD
Starring: Albert Finney, Linda Marlowe
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
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Maurice Allington owns an upmarket country restaurant 10 miles outside Cambridge. Formerly an inn, The Green Man in the tradition of many old buildings, is reported to have had at least one ghost. Dr. Thomas Underhill, a 17th-century Doctor of Divinity, was rumoured to have been the perpetrator of ...
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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, ...
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Under The Volcano
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Director: John Huston
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Under The Volcano follows the final day in the life of self-destructive British consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney), on the eve of World War II. Withering from alcoholism, Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his ...
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Abortion, alcoholism and lustful adultery 28 March 2004
... It?s a first rate kitchen sink drama with grainy atmospherics in abundance.
Albert Finney is great. He plays a young, world weary factory worker. Cynical and disenchante...
Inspiring 26 April 2004
