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Bruce Beresford
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Bruce Beresford - what members say
review by from London
moving and critically acclaimed military courtroom drama 30 January 2004
review by from South Somerset, England
Made for TV, better on DVD. 20 October 2004
Bruce Beresford - filmography
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Mao's Last Dancer
(2009)
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen
Director: Bruce Beresford
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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to ..read more »
 
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from 24 members
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The Contract
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jamie Anderson, Ned Bellamy, Margarita Blush
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Ray Keene (Cusack), a father who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his son, is trying to bring Cordell (Freeman), a world-class assassin to justice. All the while, he must protect his son and evade an assassin's team who are methodically hunting them down in the wilderness.
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from 21,122 members
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The Contract - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Jamie Anderson, Thomas Lockyer, Megan Dodds
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Only one man stands between a deadly assassin and a mark, a father protecting his child. Ray Keene (John Cusak) and his son embark upon a hiking holiday in order to reconnect after the death of his ex-wife. However, the pair are soon embroiled in a plot involving mercenaries, in this edge-of-the-..read more »
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from 845 members
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Evelyn
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Set in Dublin in 1953, Desmond Doyle is struggling to find steady work and is faced with raising his three children alone after his wife walks out on him. The Irish Church steps in and places the children in separate Catholic orphanages. Desmond works hard to pay off his debts in order for his ..read more »
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from 4,770 members
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Double Jeopardy
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Director Bruce Beresford's thriller stars Ashley Judd as Libby Parsons, a young woman with a seemingly happy marriage and a prosperous life. While on a weekend sailing trip, she wakes up in the middle of the night to find the boat covered in blood and her husband, Nick (Bruce Greenwood), missing. ..read more »
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from 5,480 members
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Last Dance
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Director Bruce Beresford's LAST DANCE stars Sharon Stone as Cindy Liggett, a lower-class Southern woman who has spent the previous 12 years on death row for killing two of her teenaged classmates. Her legal appeals seem to have run their course, and the judge who is charged with reviewing her case ..read more »
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from 315 members
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A Good Man in Africa
(1994)
Starring: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned ..read more »
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from 6 members
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Black Robe
(1991)
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt
Director: Bruce Beresford
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A compelling adventure of one man's extraordinary mission, driven by his dreams of martyrdom, to save the souls of "the Savages" in the hostile wilderness of seventeenth century North America. A long and perilous journey which soon becomes a struggle for his own survival, and for the world which ..read more »
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from 28 members
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Mister Johnson
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Dennis Quilley
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Drama based on Joyce Carey's tragicomic novel about his experiences in the British civil service, centring around the relationship between an African, Mr. Johnson (Maynard Eziashi) and a British district officer Harry Rudbeck (Pierce Brosnan), in West Africa in 1923.
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from 43 members
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Driving Miss Daisy
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Director Bruce Beresford's affinity for the subtleties of southern life is apparent in this adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Starring Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan and Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn, the film opens in late-1940s Atlanta. Since Miss Daisy is becoming a ..read more »
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from 7,013 members
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Crimes Of The Heart
(1986)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Crimes of the Heart tells the story of three eccentric southern sisters - Lenny (Diane Keaton), Meg (Jessica Lange) and Babe (Sissy Spacek), whose lives reunite after a long separation. Lenny, the eldest has never married and cares for her ailing grandfather. Meg has had a string of boyfriends and ..read more »
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from 221 members
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Breaker Morant
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown
Director: Bruce Beresford
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One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to ..read more »
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from 960 members
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The Getting Of Wisdom
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund
Director: Bruce Beresford
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The theme on an outsider trying to come to terms with an alien culture. The film, based on the novel by Henry Handel Richardson, stars Susannah Fowle as Laura Rambotham, a gifted 13-year-old girl admitted to a prestigious boarding school for girls in the 1880s. Hailing from the outback, the girl is ..read more »
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Bruce Beresford facts
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...ving and critically acclaimed military courtroom drama from Australian Director Bruce Beresford. Set at the end of the Boer War the film vividly portrays the first dirty war w...
