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  • Firewall - Blu-ray
  • Firewall - Blu-ray review by nated23 from Birmingham
    Rated - 2.0 stars Firewall 30 May 2007
    ...rprise sums up the bulk of this slick yet hollow thriller from British director Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon, My House In Umbria). Firewall covers disappointingly predictable...   Read customer review

Richard Loncraine - filmography


  • The Special Relationship on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Michael Sheen,  Michael Sheen,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the Oscar®-nominated writer and producers of Frost/Nixon and The Queen comes a powerful new look at the human side of iconic world leaders. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister – and began a “special relationship” with U.S...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 650 members
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  • Firewall - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Paul Bettany,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Thriller starring Harrison Ford as Jack Stanfield, an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft, Jack's life is turned upside down when his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two children are kidnapped. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,151 members
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  • Firewall on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Paul Bettany,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Thriller starring Harrison Ford as Jack Stanfield, an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft, Jack's life is turned upside down when his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two children are kidnapped. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 44,002 members
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  • Wimbledon - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Paul Bettany,  Sam Neill
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    British romantic comedy about a washed-up tennis player who scores a wildcard entry to the Wimbledon championship and finds his game reinvigorated after he meets one of the top American female stars. Richard Loncraine directs Paul Bettany as Peter Colt, a once-great British player who is sliding ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 50 members
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  • Wimbledon on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Paul Bettany,  Sam Neill
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    British romantic comedy about a washed-up tennis player who scores a wildcard entry to the Wimbledon championship and finds his game reinvigorated after he meets one of the top American female stars. Richard Loncraine directs Paul Bettany as Peter Colt, a once-great British player who is sliding ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 60,393 members
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  • My House in Umbria (2003)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Chris Cooper,  Ronnie Barker
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Italian-set drama starring Maggie Smith as Emily Delahunty, an author of romantic novels living in Umbria. One day, while on a shopping excursion to Milan, she becomes one of a number of victims of a terrorist bomb attack on the train. Emily recovers quickly from the event, but others in her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,833 members
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  • Gathering Storm on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Lena Headey,  Tom Wilkinson,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Albert Finney stars as Sir Winston Churchill in the years leading up to the Second World War, as he tries to warn Britain of the threat posed by Hitler and Nazi Germany. The film looks at his comeback from political obscurity and the personal sacrifices he made for his country.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,301 member
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  • Richard III (1995)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sir Ian McKellen takes the title role in this updated version of Shakespeare's play, based on Richard Eyre's acclaimed theatrical production. After a blood-soaked civil war in 1930s London, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays claim to the English throne. The deformed monarch-apparent uses all his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,226 members
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  • Wide-Eyed and Legless (1994)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Thora Hird,  Moya Brady
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 7 members
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  • Bellman And True on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Bernard Hill,  Frances Tomelty,  Ken Bones
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A timid alcoholic computer expert (Bernard Hill) becomes involved with a criminal fraternity. When they kidnap his small stepson (Kieran O'Brien), he is forced to help them rob a bank by hacking into its computer system and de-activating the alarms. With Derek Newark and Richard Hope.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 99 members
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  • The Missionary on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Michael Hordern,  Trevor Howard,  David Suchet
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Recalled to London after spending years in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortesque (Michael Palin) is given a new and no less difficult mission. He will now be required to bring the Word of the Lord to the ladies of the night. Thus he goes forth amongst them, bringing help and assitance, offering ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 737 members
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  • Brimstone and Treacle on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Denholm Elliott,  Sting,  Joan Plowright
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Evil conman Martin Taylor (Sting) charms his way into the house of a respectable family by claiming that he knew their catatonic daughter before her accident. He actually lusts after the daughter, but his obsession proves to be his undoing. A film remake of the Dennis Potter TV play, which was made ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 597 members
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  • Full Circle (1977)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  Keir Dullea,  Keir Dullea
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After the sudden accidental death of her small daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy American woman living in London, bolts her unhappy marriage and buys a house in Kensington which is haunted by the ghost of a quite obscenely nasty little girl who died in the 1950s and plans to use Julia as her pawn ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 14 members
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  • Slade - Flame (1975)
    Starring: Alan Lake,  Noddy Holder,  Don Powell
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Seventies rock band Slade star as themselves in this exposé of the cut-throat rock music industry set during the late Sixties. The band from Wolverhampton perform many of their famous songs, including 'Far, Far Away'. Tom Conti co-stars.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 370 members
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Richard Loncraine facts

5 most recent films

The Special Relationship - 3.5 stars
The Special Relationship - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
My One and Only - 3.0 stars
My One And Only - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Firewall - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Band Of Brothers - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Band Of Brothers - 4.5 stars
Gathering Storm - 4.0 stars
The Special Relationship - 3.5 stars
Richard III - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Full Circle - 2.0 stars
Wide-Eyed and Legless - 3.0 stars
Wimbledon - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Bellman And True - 2.5 stars
My One and Only - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Bettany - 5 times - show films
Maggie Smith - 4 times - show films
Jim Broadbent - 4 times - show films
Virginia Madsen - 3 times - show films
Denholm Elliott - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Mikael - 14 times - show films
Phil Alden Robinson - 14 times - show films
Mikael S - 6 times - show films
Gavin Millar - 3 times - show films
Alan Bridges - 3 times - show films