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Michael Apted
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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 ..read more »
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Enough
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis
Director: Michael Apted
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A diner waitress, Slim (Jennifer Lopez), meets Mitch (Bill Campbell), a handsome rich man who defends her in the diner. They marry and have a child, but Slim's happiness is soon lost when she discovers that her husband has a mistress. When confronted, Mitch becomes abusive and proceeds to lay down ..read more »
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Enigma
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows
Director: Michael Apted
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Set in England during World War II, Michael Apted's ENIGMA follows bookish code-breaker Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) through a whirlwind love affair with Claire Romilly (Saffron Burrows), a seductive blonde clerk, and his subsequent recovery from a mental breakdown caused by the relationship. As Tom ..read more »
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The World Is Not Enough
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Judi Dench
Director: Michael Apted
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Complete with ski chases, casino hijinks, high-tech gadgetry, and sultry women, the 19th installment in the James Bond franchise features the increasingly at ease Pierce Brosnan in his third appearance as 007, in a race to save the world's oil supply. Sophie Marceau (BRAVEHEART) stars as Elektra ..read more »
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Always Outnumbered
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Natalie Cole, Laurie Metcalf
Director: Michael Apted
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Socrates Fortlow tries to avoid trouble, but trouble comes looking for him. Running a killer out of town, falling in love with his best friend's wife, trying to save the life of a murder witness. When it comes to trouble, people look for the man who is still standing. From the best-selling author ..read more »
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Extreme Measures
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Michael Apted
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At New York's Gramercy Hospital, a homeless man under the care of English doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) dies in a horrific manner. Soon both the patient and his file mysteriously disappear. The puzzled Luthan is told by a superior to forget about it and move on. Undaunted, Luthan conducts his own ..read more »
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Nell
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson
Director: Michael Apted
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The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell (Jodie Foster) lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. Then civilisation enters her life in the form of two doctors (Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson), who discover the untamed wild ..read more »
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Blink
on DVD
(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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Continental Divide
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Goorwitz
Director: Michael Apted
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City meets country in this romantic comedy about a tough Chicago newspaperman who falls in love with an ornithologist. Ernie Souchak is a guy who thinks communing with nature means sitting on a bench in the City Park. Nell Porter is a woman who has spent most of her life alone in the mountains ..read more »
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Class Action
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joanna Merlin
Director: Michael Apted
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A father and daughter, both attorneys, are on opposite sides in the courtroom. He's on the prosecuting side and she's for the defence. As father and daughter they become divided, and as attorneys, endangered by the truth. Gene Hackman plays Jedediah Tucker Ward an esteemed trial attorney who has ..read more »
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Gorillas In The Mist
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris
Director: Michael Apted
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Based on anthropologist Dian Fossey's autobiography, and an article by Harold T. P. Hayes, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is a portrait of the determined woman who will do anything to save the mountain gorillas that she studies, and for whose well-being she has a passionate commitment. In the process, she ..read more »
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Critical Condition
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro
Director: Michael Apted
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The storyline mixes outrageous comedy with a dose of suspense as it portrays the chaotic aftermath of a power failure in a big city hospital. Coupled to all this, Richard Pryor appears as a fake mental patient, hopefully avoiding going to prison.
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Sting - Bring On The Night
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Sting
Director: Michael Apted
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Film director Michael Apted was commissioned to create this film of Sting and his new band on location, in rehearsal and most importantly, live on stage. With an hour and a half of film and music, including 'If You Love Somebody', 'Fortress Around Your Heart', 'Russians' and 'Roxanne'.
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Up Series
(1985)
Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Director: Michael Apted
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"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man" is the biblical phrase under which director Michael Apted constructed a TV series in 1964. But this was no ordinary show. Hugely ambitious, Apted decided to interview a diverse range of seven-year-old children from all over England. ..read more »
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Gorky Park
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
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When three faceless corpses are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park, the Moscow militia's top investigator, Arkady Renko (William Hurt), is assigned to the case. An honest Soviet official, Renko uncovers a murky and dangerous plot involving sinister KGB agents, the corrupt Soviet government, and a ..read more »
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P'tang Yang Kipperbang
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: John Albersiny, Abigail Cruttenden, Maurice Dee
Director: Michael Apted
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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang is an enchanting comedy set in post-World War Two Britain. Based on a story by Jack Rosenthal, it studies a teenage boy's relationships and period of sexual awakening. John Albasiny stars in the role of a cricket-obsessed adolescent, Alan Duckworth, who lusts after his ..read more »
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Coal Miner's Daughter
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
Director: Michael Apted
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The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry. One of eight children, she married at age 13 and was a mother of four by age 20. Shy and naive, she was pushed into music by ..read more »
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Sting - Bring On The Night - BLU-RAY Version
Starring: Sting
Director: Michael Apted
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Film director Michael Apted was commissioned to create this film of Sting and his new band on location, in rehearsal and most importantly, live on stage. With an hour and a half of film and music, including 'If You Love Somebody', 'Fortress Around Your Heart', 'Russians' and 'Roxanne'.
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Lovers, The - The Complete Series
(2 discs)
Starring: Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox
Director: Michael Apted, Les Chatfield
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
The 70s television series featuring Geoffrey who wants to get involved with the permissive society and his girlfrind Beryl who is against it...
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Critical Condition
to Watch Now
(1987)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades
Director: Michael Apted
Certificate: 
Watch now: FREE
Run time: 100 minutes
The symptoms: acute tickling of the funny bone and sever belly laughs. The diagnosis? Richard Pryor in Critical Condition. Playing a criminal who fakes insanity to avoid prison, Pryor ends up in a hospital mental ward. That's when the craziness starts as he escapes during a blackout and disguises ..read more »
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Michael Apted facts
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5 October 2004
...Set in England during World War II, Michael Apted's ENIGMA follows bookish code-breaker Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) through a whirlwind love affair with Claire Romilly (Saff...
Pure Genius 20 September 2004
Good and Evil 30 July 2004
