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Frears' The Hit remake dreams realised -
15 December 2011
-The Queen director Stephen Frears' dreams have come true - he has been asked to direct the Hollywood remake of his cult 1984 movie The Hit.-The moviemaker told WENN about plans to revamp the film, which starred John Hurt and Tim Roth as hitmen, last year (10) - and now
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Frears set to remake The Hit? -
1 October 2010
-Filmmaker Stephen Frears is hoping to turn his cult 1984 movie The Hit into a hit all over again - a Hollywood producer is hoping to remake the film and set it in Mexico.-
-The gritty original starred Brits Terence Stamp, John Hurt and Tim Roth, and The Queen director
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Bates given movie portrait by Frears -
18 June 2009
-Kathy Bates was given a special 60th birthday present from director Stephen Frears - a portrait of the actress from their new film Cheri.-
-Bates stars as a former courtesan in the period drama, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend.-
- And she was stunned whe
Stephen Frears - what members say
review by from London
A wonderful and passionate costume drama 17 October 2004
review by from London
Still beautiful 1 May 2004
review by A customer from East Anglia
Excellent 2 July 2006
Stephen Frears - filmography
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Lay the Favorite
(2012)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Stephen Frears
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Beth Raymer leaves her dancing job at a Florida strip club to become a Las Vegas cocktail waitress. Not exactly an ideal career choice, but her borderline-ditzy personality doesn't give her many options. In walks Dink, a professional sports bettor who sees through her bubbly exterior and offers her ..read more »
 
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Tamara Drewe
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Stephen Frears directs this comedy drama about an ugly duckling followed by a handful of suitors after maturing into a sexy swan. Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton), born and raised in Ewedown, a quiet community on the outskirts of London dominated by a writer's colony run by Nicholas Hardiment (Roger ..read more »
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Tamara Drewe - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp
Director: Stephen Frears
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Stephen Frears directs this comedy drama about an ugly duckling followed by a handful of suitors after maturing into a sexy swan. Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton), born and raised in Ewedown, a quiet community on the outskirts of London dominated by a writer's colony run by Nicholas Hardiment (Roger ..read more »
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Great Directors
(2009)
Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani
Director: Angela Ismailos
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GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.
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Cheri
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Frances Tomelty, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend
Director: Stephen Frears
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A romantic drama set in 1920s Paris, where the son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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from 2,904 members
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The Queen
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Roger Allam, Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate: 
A taut, intimate and revealing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family in turmoil during the days immediately following the death of Princess Diana.
When news of the death of Princess Diana, undoubtedly the most famous woman in the world, breaks upon a shocked and disbelieving British ..read more »
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Mrs Henderson Presents
(2005)
Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young
Director: Stephen Frears
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Wartime entertainment takes a new turn when Mrs Henderson decides to offer an all naked female dance troupe to bring some cheer in times of trouble. Based on true events at the Windmill Theatre in London's West End.
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from 41,222 members
Not currently released
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The Deal
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Paul Rhys, David Morrissey, Michael Sheen
Director: Stephen Frears
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From the writer/director team behind 2006's Oscar favourite THE QUEEN, this made-for-TV political drama almost serves as its prequel. Based partly on James Naughtie's book THE RIVALS: THE INTIMATE STORY OF A POLITICAL MARRIAGE, THE DEAL chronicles the early career of Tony Blair, when, as a Member ..read more »
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Dirty Pretty Things
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez
Director: Stephen Frears
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Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a remarkably understated performance in director Stephen Frears's offbeat and gripping drama DIRTY PRETTY THINGS. Ejiofor stars as Okwe, a Nigerian who is trying to make a new life for himself in London, where he works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk ..read more »
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from 11,585 members
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Dirty Pretty Things - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez
Director: Stephen Frears
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Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a remarkably understated performance in director Stephen Frears's offbeat and gripping drama DIRTY PRETTY THINGS. Ejiofor stars as Okwe, a Nigerian who is trying to make a new life for himself in London, where he works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk ..read more »
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from 33 members
Due for release on 11th June 2012
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High Fidelity
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: John Cusack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet
Director: Stephen Frears
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Watch now: Unavailable
Transplanted from England to the not-so-mean streets of Chicago, the screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's cult-classic novel High Fidelity emerges unscathed from its Americanisation, idiosyncrasies intact, thanks to John Cusack's inimitable charm and a nimble, nifty screenplay (co-written by Cusack). ..read more »
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Liam
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Anne Reid
Director: Stephen Frears
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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 »
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from 409 members
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Fail Safe
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle
Director: Stephen Frears
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This groundbreaking live broadcast television drama, directed by Stephen Frears, features an all-star cast including George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Don Cheadle, and Harvey Keitel. When a American bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a bomb on Moscow, the crisis must be averted ..read more »
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The Hi-Lo Country
(1998)
Starring: Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser
Director: Stephen Frears
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Just after World War II best friends Big Boy Matson (Woody Harrelson) and Pete Calder (Billy Crudup) return home to find half of their town employed by cattle baron Jim Ed Love (Sam Elliott). Hanging on to the mythic ideals of the American West Big Boy and Pete team up with an old time rancher ..read more »
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from 3 members
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The Van
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly
Director: Stephen Frears
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This is the third film adapted from a fictional trilogy by Irish writer Roddy Doyle about families living in a working-class Dublin neighborhood. The first was director Alan Parker's smashing music mockumentary The Commitments and the second was the hilarious comedy The Snapper, directed by Stephen ..read more »
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from 733 members
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Mary Reilly
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole
Director: Stephen Frears
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In this moody and melodramatic revision of the classic horror tale, based on the novel by Valerie Martin, the Jekyll and Hyde saga is told from the point of view of the doctor's long-time maid, Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts). Despite Mary's close collaboration with the staid Dr. Jekyll (John Malkovich)..read more »
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The Snapper
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe
Director: Stephen Frears
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Welcome to the helter-skelter Curley household. Dessie and Kay are proud parents of six loud, lively children. When their daughter Sharon announces that she is pregnant and refuses to name the father, shock-waves reverberate through the family and the neighbourhood.
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The Grifters
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Annette Bening, John Cusack, Anjelica Huston
Director: Stephen Frears
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Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John ..read more »
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Dangerous Liaisons
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Stephen Frears
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Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liasons Dangeureuses was the basis for this Academy Award-winning Stephen Frears film. The plot is motivated by a cruel wager between the beautiful but debauched Marquise de ..read more »
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Prick Up Your Ears
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Stephen Frears
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This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as ..read more »
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from 2,784 members
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My Beautiful Laundrette
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Director: Stephen Frears
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MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, ..read more »
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from 12,464 members
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The Hit
(1984)
Starring: John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. ..read more »
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from 145 members
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Loving Walter
(1982)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Stephen Frears
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The frustrations of Thatcher-era government social services are the backdrop for this touching story of a mentally challenged man (Ian McKellan from LORD OF THE RINGS) who wanders through the system and is helped by various townpeople.
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Walter
(1982)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Stephen Frears
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Director Stephen Frears paints a bleak and cynical picture of the ordinary Brit's ability to relate to someone less fortunate in this hard-hitting look at the world of the mentally handicapped. Walter played by Ian McKellen is a kind-hearted man who is mentally challenged. Walter's parents are ..read more »
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from 5 members
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Bloody Kids
(1979)
Starring: Derrick O'Connor, Gary Holton, Richard Thomas
Director: Stephen Frears
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It's a tough life for an eleven-year-old kid. It started as a prank to see just how far he could push the police. Then something went wrong and now he's wanted, with nowhere to hide but the streets. A tense urban drama.
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from 89 members
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Three Men In A Boat
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore
Director: Stephen Frears
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Popular from the very start and never out of print, Three Men in a Boat remains as fresh and funny today as when it was first published in 1889. This adaptation is by a modern master of comedy, playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Russia House, Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and ..read more »
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Gumshoe
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Fulton MacKay
Director: Stephen Frears
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Private eye Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) thinks he's Bogart -- if Bogie was a compere at a Merseyside bingo -- but his latest case may have bamboozled even Raymond Chandler himself. Accompanied by a mesmerising Andrew Lloyd Webber score, Frears' post-modern dismantling of the American detective ..read more »
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from 232 members
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Tom Grattan's War - The Complete Series
Starring: Michael Howe
Director: Stephen Frears
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Aimed at a youthful viewership, this comedy-drama series starred Michael Howe as the teenaged title character. During WWI, Londoner Tom was evacuated to Yorkshire, where he moved in with his agrarian relatives. Though he wasn't looking for trouble, Tom found plenty of it when he and his new band of ..read more »
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Stephen Frears facts
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...Stephen Frears brings De Laclos' novel to life with this stylish and spiteful adaptation. Glenn Close and John Malkovich excel in their best roles to date as the conniving Ma...
