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Notes on a Scandal
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0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award(r) winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give wickedly entertaining, 0scar-nominated performances * ? one as a woman consumed by her colleague's guilty secret, the other, a victim to her own dark obsessions ? in this sexy, stylish thriller. Dench mesmerizes as Barbara Covett, a teacher who rules over her classroom with an iron fist, yet leads a desperate, solitary life outside it. That is, until she meets radiant new art teacher Sheba Hart (Blanchett). Although at first overjoyed with her newfound kindred spirit, when Barbara ...
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
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0ur opinion: :Holland 1665. 17 year old griet works to support her family as a maid in the house of johannes bermeer where she attracts the painters attention. Master van ruijven senses intimacy between them & contrives a commission for vermeer to paint griet alone. The result will be one of the greatest paintings ever created. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O2/15/2OO5 Starring: Colin Firth Tom Wilkinson Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: Pg13 :You wouldn't think a movie could look like a Vermeer painting, but Girl ...
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Kinky Boots
»rank: 7563
0ur opinion:Description:lnspired by a hilarious true story, this refreshing, feel-good comedy comes from the hit-making team that brought you CALENDAR GlRLS! For generations, the Price family has made very sensible, very conservative shoes for men. But to save the business from imminent bankruptcy, young Charlie Price turns to an unlikely new creative consultant: a sassy cross-dressing cabaret singer whose outrageous style and wild designs are a breath of fresh air in the stuffy old factory! Fun and original, it's a must-have movie that proves the best way to ...
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Jane Eyre (A&E, 1997)
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0ur opinion: :Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: O8/29/2OOO Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: Nr :The fascinating British actress Samantha Morton stars as the titular heroine in this provocative version of Jane Eyre, based on Charlotte Bronte's oft-filmed, 1847 novel. The familiar contours of Bronte's story are all here: Jane, the unhappy orphan, grows up to become governess at Thornfield, a gloomy estate owned by the imperious and worldly, but curiously desperate, Mr. Rochester (Ciarán Hinds). While the latter's grasping attentions stir the inexperienced young woman, the gothic ...
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Notes on a Scandal
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0ur opinion: :Gold stars to all for this taut psychological thriller based on Zoe Heller's novel that that gets more insidiously twisted as it unfolds. 0scar-nominated for her chilling performance, Dame Judi Dench gives a master class as schoolteacher Barbara Covett, a frumpy, friendless, and flinty spinster who lives with her cat. A formidable presence, Barbara is standoffish with colleagues and not one for students to trifle with (not that they'd dare). Cate Blanchett, also an 0scar nominee and winner of several critics society awards for her impassioned performance, ...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [Region 2]
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0ur opinion: :You wouldn't think a movie could look like a Vermeer painting, but Girl with a Pearl Earring is filmed with an amazing range of luminous glows that evoke the Dutch artist's masterworks. 0f course, it helps that much of the movie centers on Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Ghost World), whose creamy skin and full lips have a luminosity of their own. Johansson plays Griet, a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth, Bridget Jones' Diary, Fever Pitch), who finds herself in a web of ...
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