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Watson pushed back War Horse filming for daughter -
13 January 2012
-Actress Emily Watson pushed back the start of her stint filming War Horse so she could be with her young daughter on her first day of school.-The star has received glowing reviews for her turn in Steven Spielberg's drama, but she risked missing out on the role when s
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Watson lost acting ambition after becoming a mum -
25 March 2011
-British actress Emily Watson would be happy to step out of the spotlight and become a full-time housewife - because she's lost her acting ambition.-
-The Gosford Park star and husband Jack Waters are parents to Juliet, five, and two-year-old Dylan and the actress adm
Emily Watson - what members say
review by from London, England
Virtuoso Performance .. 9 May 2005
review by TrevorBevan from Gloucestershire
Sad and a bit too close to reality 28 April 2004
review by from Nottingham
Daniel Day-Lewis packs a punch 29 July 2006
Emily Watson - filmography
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Appropriate Adult
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Dominic West, Emily Watson, Samuel Roukin
Director: Julian Jarrold
Certificate: 
Starring Dominic West and Emily Watson this is the story of Fred & Rosemary West told through Janet Leach (the Appropriate Adult). Janet Leach was an ordinary housewife who volunteered to help an illiterate prisoner. The man was Britain's worst serial sex killer and he confessed his darkest secrets ..read more »
 
73%
from 1,058 member
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Oranges and Sunshine
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham
Director: Jim Loach
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Directed by Jim Loach, Oranges & Sunshine tells the real-life story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, ..read more »
73%
from 5,958 members
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Cemetery Junction - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Felicity Jones
Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
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Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's feature-film directorial debut, Cemetery Junction centres on three men working at an insurance firm in 1970's England.
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to ..read more »
68%
from 8,276 members
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Cemetery Junction
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Felicity Jones
Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
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Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's feature-film directorial début, Cemetery Junction centres on three men working at an insurance firm in 1970's England.
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to ..read more »
67%
from 27,954 members
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Fireflies in the Garden
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe
Director: Dennis Lee
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In this haunting family drama of recrimination and reconciliation, Lisa Waechter is at the center of the story playing a beleaguered family matriarch who has subordinated her needs and desires to those of her family, particularly her cold, demanding husband. Lisa's sudden death brings her entire ..read more »
59%
from 3,676 members
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Cold Souls
(2008)
Starring: Dina Korzun, Armand Schultz, Michael Tucker
Director: Sophie Barthes
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In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes "Cold Souls," a metaphysical tragicomedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, and between reality and fantasy, the film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, ..read more »
66%
from 91 members
Not available for rental
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Emily Watson
Director: Mick Jackson
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The birth of a child should be the happiest moment in a couple's life. But when a doctor's wife has twins, one of whom has Down syndrome, this physician makes the difficult decision to send one of his babies away. An attending nurse discovers his plan and intervenes, putting into motion events that ..read more »
65%
from 899 members
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Synecdoche, New York
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson
Director: Charlie Kaufman
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Obsession and identity are recurring themes in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's work, and he draws on them again in his directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. Kaufman's film focuses on the wiles of Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a regional theatre director who has won a MacArthur grant to ..read more »
57%
from 6,219 members
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Wah-Wah
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie Walters
Director: Richard E. Grant
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A 14-year-old British boy returns to his home in colonial Swaziland to find that his father has remarried a free-spirited American woman that he has known for six weeks. A semi-autobiographical coming of age story by actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), WAH-WAH is set in the late 1960s in ..read more »
65%
from 8,722 members
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The Proposition - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate: 
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Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
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from 1,675 member
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
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In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
68%
from 544 members
Not currently released
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Separate Lies
(2005)
Starring: Linda Bassett, Hermione Norris, Rupert Everett
Director: Julian Fellowes
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A wealthy and successful couple find their life changed forever following a car crash in which their housekeeper's husband is killed. Lies and deception are rife as the police begin to investigate.
53%
from 7,756 members
Not currently released
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead ..read more »
69%
from 2,587 members
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The Proposition
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
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In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
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from 15,535 members
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Bright Young Things
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen, Fry
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Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
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from 7,067 members
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Equilibrium
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Angus Macfadyen
Director: Kurt Wimmer
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In a futuristic society where the government requires the people to stay tranquil and submissive by taking a psychological drug, people no longer have emotions. Because of this, there are no more wars. But when one of the enforcement agents realizes that maybe peaceful oblivion is not the answer, ..read more »
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from 25,236 members
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Red Dragon - HD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
Certificate:
The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
68%
from 411 members
Not currently released
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Equilibrium - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Angus Macfadyen
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Certificate:
In a futuristic society where the government requires the people to stay tranquil and submissive by taking a psychological drug, people no longer have emotions. Because of this, there are no more wars. But when one of the enforcement agents realizes that maybe peaceful oblivion is not the answer, ..read more »
69%
from 2,604 members
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Red Dragon
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
Certificate:
The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
71%
from 868 members
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Punch-Drunk Love
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Certificate:
Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance as Barry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between ..read more »
56%
from 14,944 members
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Red Dragon
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Brett Ratner
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Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the case. But he soon ..read more »
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from 21,450 members
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant
Director: Robert Altman
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In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
65%
from 16,401 members
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Trixie
(2000)
Starring: Emily Watson, Nathan Lane, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Alan Rudolph
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Trixie, a one-of-a-kind, blue-collar gumshoe and onetime security guard tangles with a host of shady characters, including a promiscuous senator and another ladies' man, at a small lakefront casino as she tracks down a dissolute killer.
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from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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The Luzhin Defence
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James
Director: Marleen Gorris
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Based on the novel THE DEFENSE by Vladimir Nabokov, director Marleen Gorris's THE LUZHIN DEFENCE is set in Italy in the 1920s as the world reknowned chess master Alexander Luzhin (John Turturro) from St. Petersburg, Russia, arrives for a match with his only known rival. Almost immediately after he ..read more »
62%
from 564 members
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Angela's Ashes
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Liam Carney, Eanna MacLiam, Robert Carlyle
Director: Alan Parker
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ANGELA'S ASHES is the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (played at various ages by Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge), whose personal memoir became a worldwide phenomenon. When eldest son Frank's baby sister dies and father Malachy (Robert Carlyle) can find no work, ..read more »
69%
from 3,594 members
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Hilary And Jackie
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain
Director: Anand Tucker
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The touching and incredible true story of Jacqueline and Hilary du Pre, the gifted musical sisters who grew up in England in the 1950's. Written and produced as a tribute to Jackie, the story traces her rapid rise to international fame and the devastating consequences it had on her and those she ..read more »
68%
from 1,584 member
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Metroland
(1997)
Starring: Christian Bale, Lee Ross, Emily Watson
Director: Philip Saville
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Two best friends vow never to become trapped in suburbia's metroland. Escaping by the end of the 1960s, one young man decides to go globetrotting whilst the other moves to France.... Years later they meet again.
55%
from 363 members
Currently unavailable
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The Boxer
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, 32-year-old Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns to his old neighborhood and sees former-flame ..read more »
67%
from 1,869 member
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Breaking The Waves
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge
Director: Lars Von Trier
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With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. ..read more »
68%
from 6,972 members
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The Mill On The Floss
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Emily Watson, Cheryl Campbell, James Frain
Director: Graham Theakston
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George Eliot's classic tale of love, rejection and reconciliation in which Maggie Tulliver is a rare free spirit in Victorian society who has to look outside the love of her own family to find the companionship and life she craves.
59%
from 1,100 member
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Emily Watson facts
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...Emily Watson gives an truely superb performance as cellist Jacqueline du Pr?, in a biopic that centres on Jacqueline's relationship with her sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths...
