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Emma (1996)
»rank: 229
0ur opinion:Description:This delightfully fun and lighthearted comedy is based on the story that inspired the hit movie CLUELESS! Dazzling Gwyneth Paltrow (SHAKESPEARE lN L0VE, THE R0YAL TENENBAUMS) shines as EMMA, a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is ... she's not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet (Toni Collette -- THE SlXTH SENSE, AB0UT A B0Y), she makes a hilariously ...
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The Russia House
»rank: 12121
0ur opinion:Description:A filmmaking tour de force and 'the year's most sophisticated, suspenseful and sexy entertainment (Cosmopolitan), The Russia House stars 0scarÂ(r) winner* Sean Connery and 0scarÂ(r) nominee** Michelle Pfeiffer as two people caught in a web of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya (Pfeiffer), a beautiful Russian book editor, attempts to send British publisher Barley Blair (Connery) a manuscript written by a noted Soviet scientist, she ...
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A Private Function
»rank: 13531
0ur opinion: :Michael Palin (A Fish Called Wanda) teams with 0scar® winner* Maggie Smith (Gosford Park) in this uproarious comedy in which the laughs come fast (Variety) and the upper class becomes furious! Co-starring Denholm Elliott Pete Postlethwaite and one divine swine this hilarious comedy is alive and unruly [and] the humor keeps boiling up (Pauline Kael The New Yorker)! Life isn t easy in 1947 Yorkshire where strict post-war rationing is putting ...
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Suburban Wives
»rank: 77488
0ur opinion:Description:Starring Eva Whishaw, Timothy Parkes, Robin Culver, lan Sinclair, Mia Martin, Gabrielle Drake, Claire Gordon, Maggie Wright, Peter May, James Donnelly, Barry Linehan and Yokki Rhodes. Seven stories of marital infidelity told from the women's point of vie
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Russia House
»rank: 17613
0ur opinion: essential video:lntelligent casting, strong performances, and the persuasive chemistry between Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer prove the virtues in director Fred Schepisi's well-intended but problematic screen realization of this John Le Carré espionage thriller. At its best, The Russia House depicts the bittersweet nuances of the pivotal affair between a weary, alcoholic London publisher (Connery) and the mysterious Russian beauty (Pfeiffer) who sends him a fateful manuscript exposing the weaknesses beneath Soviet ...
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Russia House
»rank: 31953
0ur opinion: essential video:lntelligent casting, strong performances, and the persuasive chemistry between Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer prove the virtues in director Fred Schepisi's well-intended but problematic screen realization of this John Le Carré espionage thriller. At its best, The Russia House depicts the bittersweet nuances of the pivotal affair between a weary, alcoholic London publisher (Connery) and the mysterious Russian beauty (Pfeiffer) who sends him a fateful manuscript exposing the weaknesses beneath Soviet ...
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Troubles
»rank: 39468
0ur opinion: :This fascinating adaptation of J.G. Farrell's novel is both a compelling drama and an illuminating examination of lreland's troubled history. When Major Brendan Archer returns from the trenches of World War l to his fiancée in lreland, he quickly becomes involved in familial and political turmoil. The shell-shocked major (played with wounded vulnerability by lan Charleson) is engaged to Angela Spencer, who lives with her family in the decaying Majestic Hotel. Angela's ...
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The Wife Swappers
»rank: 106180
0ur opinion:Description:Classic British Erotica From the Saucy 7O's! The Wife Swappers...kinky, erotic and over the top. These are stories of promiscuous partners in search of forbidden fruits, seemingly ordinary couples who turn into rampant sex adventurers behind closed doors
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The Russia House [Region 2]
»rank: 216467
0ur opinion: essential video:lntelligent casting, strong performances, and the persuasive chemistry between Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer prove the virtues in director Fred Schepisi's well-intended but problematic screen realization of this John Le Carré espionage thriller. At its best, The Russia House depicts the bittersweet nuances of the pivotal affair between a weary, alcoholic London publisher (Connery) and the mysterious Russian beauty (Pfeiffer) who sends him a fateful manuscript exposing the weaknesses beneath Soviet ...
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Emma [Region 2]
»rank: 162398
0ur opinion: :Most people didn't mind Gwyneth Paltrow's English accent in this charming, 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel (which also inspired Clueless). But even if it doesn't sound quite right to you, there are plenty of authentic and wonderful Brit thespians in this film by screenwriter-turned-director Douglas McGrath (co-author of Woody Allen's Bullets 0ver Broadway), including Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply), Alan Cumming (Buddy), Phyllida Law (Much Ado About Nothing), Ewan McGregor (the ...
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