Biography: Alison Steadman |
Trained at the East 15 Acting School, British actress Alison Steadman worked as a secretary for the Liverpool Probation Service before making her professional stage bow in 1968. Five years later, Steadman made her London theatrical debut. She won a... more
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Tags: Erotic Drama Drama
Length: 117min
Bridget Jones's Diary screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts John Clelend's controversial 18th Century novel for the screen in this erotic drama starring screen newcomer Rebecca Night as the mischievous, titular nymph. Upon losing her parents to smallpox,...
Cast: Albert Finney Julie Christie
Length: 240min
The line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred as an ailing screenwriter struggles with a story that seems to come to life before his eyes. A self-destructive loaner whose battle with pancreatic cancer has left him embittered and in...
Cast: Mike Leigh Jim Broadbent Alison Steadman
Tags: Urban Drama Urban Comedy Domestic Comedy Ensemble Film Comedy Drama
Length: 105min
Mike Leigh's situation comedy about a lower middle-class family in the London suburbs is a slice-of-life chronicle that subtly reveals the pain and rage underneath the surface of day-to-day conventions. The youngish parents, Wendy (Alison Steadman)...
Cast: Joanna Lumley
Tags: Romance Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 108min
Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the Chicago production). In...
The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt (1989)
Cast: Mel Smith Michael Tuchner
Tags: Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 84min
Produced for London Weekend Television, Wilt is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Sharpe. Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, stars of the internationally popular TV series Not Necessarily the News, head the cast as Henry Wilt and Inspector...
Cast: John Heard
Length: 100min
British character actor Alfred Molina contributes another top-rank characterization in Virtuoso. Molina essays the role of real-life concert pianist John Ogden. The film touches briefly upon Ogden's performing genius, then takes a dark turn by...
Cast: Michael Gambon Jon Amiel
Tags: Musical Detective Film Musical Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 415min
With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel -Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred...
Cast: John Cleese
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 96min
John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is fully exploited in the British comedy Clockwise. Cleese portrays Brian Stimpson, a perfectionist English headmaster who has been selected to make an...
Cast: Alfred Molina
Tags: Drama
Length: 105min
In this conventional, formulaic tale about a nonchalant snooker (pool, British style) hustler who is conned into competing in a national championship, good ensemble acting carries the story beyond its predictable evolution. Bob Geldof is Harry (Flash)...
Cast: Michael Apted
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 85min
The romantic hurdles experienced by the teen set at a British school are juxtaposed with the same type of difficulties experienced by their elders in this pat, adolescent view of life and love by director Michael Apted for a British TV series called...
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