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The Tiger's Tail
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciaran Hinds
Director: John Boorman
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Dublin property developer Liam O’Leary (Gleeson) gets the shock of his life when his exact double starts to follow him around. The sinister stranger begins posing as Liam both at home and at work, and Liam must struggle to prove his own identity as everyone assumes he is his criminal double.
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In My Country
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
Director: John Boorman
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Noted filmmaker John Boorman ('Deliverance', 'The General', 'The Tailor Of Panama') addresses the complex emotional scars leftover from Apartheid in South Africa in 'In My Country'. The events of the film take place during hearings conducted in 1996 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The ..read more »
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The Tailor Of Panama
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Boorman
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Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ..read more »
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The General
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley
Director: John Boorman
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Brendan Gleeson stars as Martin Cahill, the leading Irish criminal of the 1980s. A protean figure, Cahill was a man of extraordinary intelligence, obsessive secretiveness, and vicious brutality who was never stopped by the Irish police despite having pocketed more than $60 million of other people's ..read more »
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from 843 members
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Where The Heart Is
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Christopher Plummer
Director: John Boorman
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Dabney Coleman stars as demolition contractor Stewart McBain in director John Boorman's WHERE THE HEART IS, a Capra-esque fable that harkens back to the populist comedies of the 1930s. When an architectural conservation group legally thwarts McBain's plans to vaporise the ageing Dutch House ..read more »
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from 211 members
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The Emerald Forest
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Meg Foster
Director: John Boorman
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Set in Brazil, John Boorman's The Emerald Forest is the search of one man for his kidnapped seven year old son taken by a tribe of Amazon Indians. Ten years later, he finally locates his son and discovers that the boy's way of life is far superior to his own and that the dam he is working on will ..read more »
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from 866 members
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Excalibur
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren
Director: John Boorman
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Director John Boorman's passionate adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's LE MORTE D'ARTHUR stars Nigel Terry as the faithful King Arthur. Necromancer Merlin (Nicol Williamson) offers the magic sword Excalibur to the warlike Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) in exchange for a promise that he'll make peace ..read more »
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Exorcist 2 - The Heretic
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher
Director: John Boorman
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Four years after Regan (Linda Blair) has a demon exorcised by a Catholic priest, flying reveries and visions continue to pervade her dreams. Father Lamont (Richard Burton) is released from the Vatican to discover the truth behind Regan's problems, little knowing that the search will take him to ..read more »
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Zardoz
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman
Director: John Boorman
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When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in ..read more »
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from 796 members
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Deliverance
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Director: John Boorman
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Director John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel stars Burt Reynolds as the hypermasculine Lewis Medlock. Obsessed with Hemingway-vintage notions about achieving true masculinity by challenging nature, Lewis cajoles three of his friends, Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty), Drew ..read more »
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from 13,212 members
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Hell In The Pacific
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune
Director: John Boorman
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Director John Boorman's typical bravado is somewhat muted in this WWII parable. Set in the Pacific in 1944, the film focuses on two combatants stranded on the same barren atoll: a Japanese naval officer (Toshiro Mifune) and a U.S. marine pilot (Lee Marvin). At first the two men warily stalk each ..read more »
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from 379 members
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Point Blank
(1967)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Director: John Boorman
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A man is shot and left for dead by his unfaithful wife and her mobster lover. Now he's back and out for revenge against the businessmen and mobsters who did him wrong.
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78%
from 352 members
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Catch Us If You Can
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge
Director: John Boorman
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John Boorman makes his directorial debut with this cult 1960s story in which Dave Clark appears as a stuntman who gives up the rat-race to see the real world, along with the Dave Clark Five Band and Dave's model girlfriend. On a sunny island they mix with beatniks and society people while singing ..read more »
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from 109 members
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John Boorman facts
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Superb thriller 21 February 2005
...at they all underestimate is that while the landscape may look very pretty (and John Boorman's direction does a fantastic job of this) it is as wildly unforgiving as it is ...
One of the best of the 60s 2 November 2005
