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7 reviews
Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Murder, stolen diamonds, terrorism and fugitives on the run
When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) is freed from prison after being acquitted on a charge of terrorism, he soon gets into trouble with the police who intend that his freedom is going to be very short lived. In fact they intend that also will be very short lived too. Persuaded by his girlfriend who is a lawyer, British engineer Keogh (Michael Caine) helps Twala flee from ...

Cotton Mary

9 reviews
Sarah Badel, Riju Bajaj

Universal Studios, 2001

Cotton Mary - Speaks!
Servile, cunning, ingratiating and conniving... these adjectives pretty much sum up Mary's character for me. Sexually prudish, yet ambitious for some social standing, she sees her opportunity come in the form of a newborn while working as a nurse. The mother is British, the baby premature. The mother is not producing milk, and Mary takes the infant to a crippled wet nurse where the baby is ...

A Handful of Dust

8 reviews
James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas

Hbo Home Video, 2004

If "Requiem for a Dream" were a period peice film ...
I will admit, I was not a fan of this film during the first fifteen minutes when it nearly went into the "Period Film Sleeping Bag" category, but after you get through this first hump (which is to wean out the naysayers) this is a very disturbing and thoughtful film. In fact, I loved it. It took me awhile to think about it after the first viewing, but I was very impressed. Not only did this ...

Little Devil

1 review
Kate Hardie, Maggie O'Neill

Bfs Entertainment, 2008

Not a family flick
The cover of this DVD makes it look like a family film. Definitely not. It's a comedy/drama about marriage woes. A small amount of salty language and mature topics makes it inappropriate for children, but would only offend a very, very prudish adult. Two British couples are best friends. Couple A, Will & Laura, are solid citizen types, whose life is just a little boring. Will is a head ...

A Tale of Two Cities (Masterpiece Theatre, 1989)

17 reviews
James Wilby, Xavier Deluc

Bfs Entertainment, 2001

Worth watching. Worth owning.
Within my admittedly limited experience, Masterpiece Theater dramatizations of great books are well produced and faithful to the original. This is no exception. Well, Dickens's famous opening lines, "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times," etc. do not come at the beginning of the production but are inserted into a monologue by Sydney Carton shortly after the start of the second ...

Lady Chatterley (2-DVD Box Set + Slipcase. 205 Minutes. Full Length. Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby), 1993

Bertie and Elizabeth: The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth

10 reviews
James Wilby; Juliet Aubrey; Alan Bates; Eileen Atkins; Charles Edwards (VI); Amber Rose Sealey; Elisabeth Dermot Walsh; Hannah Wiltshire; Robert Hardy; Oliver Ford Davies; Graham Bill; Deborah Cornelius; Naomi Martin; Alexandra Staden; Jeremy Child; David Hatton; Rupert Wickham; Jeremy Swift; Simon Day (III); Anthony Smee

WGBH BOSTON, 2005

Bertie and Elizabeth
I have so many DVDs about the Royal Family and this is one of the very best! There have been many movies, miniseries, etc that concentrate on the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - this DVD looks at the story from a different perspective.

Wilby Wonderful

15 reviews
Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross

Film Movement, 2005

Insightful and sweet.
I stumbled upon this film through an Amazon "listmania," and am very glad I did. There are no car chases, gun fights, supermodels and so forth, just regular people making it through their days; which is the most interesting sort of film imaginable. "Wilby" touches on issues like bad attitudes towards gays, how golf course development can wreck beautiful wild spaces, and how we sometimes lose ...

Wilby Wonderful

4 reviews
James Allodi, Maury Chaykin

'Wilby' Wonderful? Oh, it is.
A beautiful, simple, and gently humourous look at the shenanigans and goings-on of a small town in one day, "Wilby Wonderful" is simply that - wonderful. It's a perfect little gem of a film that not only has an all-star Canadian cast, but boasts witty and thoughtful writing, and emotive direction. Covering such topics as the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter, a marriage on ...

P.D. James - Original Sin

4 reviews
Roy Marsden, Ian Bannen

KOCH VISION, 2005

Revisiting Original Sin
Normally, I should not think it necessary to revisit "Original Sin." However, given the less than adequate sound engineering and the soft tones and trailing voice of Roy Marsden, it takes two or three hearing before one can clearly identify all of the dialogue. English subtitles for the non-Brits in the audience would make for a wonderful enhancement to this production. P.D. James writes with ...

Adam Bede

6 reviews
Iain Glen, Patsy Kensit

BBC Warner, 2007

Wonderful production
This production carefully re-creates English countryside life, but they are not country bumpkins, rather they are carefully drawn good and flawed people who pursue their happiness and are often very articulate. The acting, especially by Iain Glen and Patsy Kensit, is great. The sets realistically depict the country setting, and the cinematography complements what's happening in the story. ...

Gosford Park

408 reviews
Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe

Universal Studios, 2002

Wonderful, luxurious mystery
The story opens in 1932 at the country estate of Lord and Lady McCordle; guests arriving for the weekend include friends and relatives and even a Hollywood movie producer. Of course, they bring their servants who bustle around downstairs to make life grand for their betters upstairs. When someone is found dead - and it appears he was murdered twice - everyone seems to have a motive. The ...

The Treasure Seekers Dvd! Feature Films for Families

The Treasure Seekers Dvd! Feature Films for Families, starring: Nicholas Farrell James, Wilby Gina McKee, Ian Richardson, Peter Capaldi, Nigel Davenport and more! Includes Parents Guide for Family Discussion on the back container. From the back: The Bastable children have just days to save their inventor father from financial ruin. But everything they try just puts the family deeper in jeopardy. Only after enlisting the help of their friends are ...

Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection

78 reviews
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson

Merchant Ivory, 2005

A magnificently told tale of sin, forgiveness, and redemption
A magnificently told tale of sin, forgiveness, redemption, and the settling of accounts Though slow-moving throughout (my only complaint against this film, and a minor one at that), HOWARD'S END is many things: a costume drama, a period piece, a film with some of the best acting you could ever hope to find, and at times, a comedy of errors with some very unique and unpredictable plot twists. ...

Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection

106 reviews
James Wilby, Rupert Graves

Merchant Ivory, 2004

Century Later the Feeling Is Still Strong
Over twenty years after it was made "Maurice" has changed into a classic but did not age at all. This coming-of-age and coming-to-terms story faithfully taken from E. M. Forster's novel was transferred into the screen with such adroitness that with the passage of time it rather increases its appeal. We are transferred to the Edwardian England some years before the outbreak of the Great War. The ...

Behind the Lines

17 reviews
Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby

Lions Gate, 2003

Behind The Lines
A rivetting drama based on real life events in WW1 and the psychological disasters occurring from service in the action on the western Front - well before the term 'Post-traumatic Stress Disorder" came into vogue. Full of drama, dilemmas and human emotion. Tightly edited and beautifully photographed. Well worth viewing, indeed repeat viewing.

The Woman in White

34 reviews
Tara Fitzgerald; Justine Waddell; Andrew Lincoln; Susan Vidler; John Standing; Adie Allen; Ian Richardson; James Wilby; Ann Bell; Anne Etchells; Timothy Carlton; Simon Callow; Tony Spooner; Sean Gleeson; Kika Markham; Corin Redgrave; Nicholas Woodeson; Eric Carte; David Barry (IV); Celandine Wade

WGBH BOSTON, 2005

A grand Victorian gothic adventure, filled with madness, stratagems, love, graves and dark, dark woods
"The bad dreams always come back again like unwanted friends," says Marion Fairlie, who with her half-sister, Laura, lives in a vast mid-Victorian country estate. "And last night I found myself in Limmeridge churchyard. Normally, people who are dead stay dead, just as normally it is the criminals who are locked up rather than the victims. But then, there was nothing normal about what happened to ...

Maurice
Hugh Grant, James Wilby

Extreme Digital Media

Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper.

Lady Chatterley

21 reviews
Hetty Baynes, Sean Bean

Acorn Media, 2003

Lady Chatterley Again A pleasant surprise!
I thought oh no not another version of this book, I can't bear it but when I saw it, I was blown away. Sean Bean is great as the "lover" and smolders all the way through but he can also act!! Almost as good as his Sharpe role. I thought the period sets and cast were well chosen and one can easily get lost by oneself for 4 steamy hours!! I felt that the length was good it gave the film time ...

The Treasure Seekers

7 reviews
Camilla Power, Felicity Jones

Questar, 2000

E. Nesbit's Victorian England, a visual delight
This charming film is loosely based on a classic story by E. Nesbit, a wonderful children's author whose English Victorian Age stories are still read today. As in many of her stories, 5 kids are left to their own amusement while a parent struggles to earn a living. In this case, their father is an inventor, who has been at work for 6 years in an effort to create a refrigerator. However he is in ...