Beeban Kidron

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

Cast: Hugh Grant Renée Zellweger Gemma Jones   

Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy 

Length: 106min

Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth),...

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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

Cast: Stockard Channing Blythe Danner Wesley Snipes Patrick Swayze John Leguizamo   

Tags: Road Movie Comedy Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Buddy Film 

Length: 108min

Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John...

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Swept From The Sea (1997)

Cast: John Barry Ian McKellen   

Tags: Drama Period Film Romantic Drama 

Length: 120min

Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss...

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Cinderella (1999)

Cast: Kathleen Turner David Warner   

Tags: Period Film Fantasy Comedy Fantasy 

Length: 95min

This offbeat retelling of the classic fairy tale is set on the British Isle of Man in the 1950s, with the three wicked stepsisters portrayed as a trio of annoying social climbers doted upon by their mother Claudette (Kathleen Turner). Cinderella stars...

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989)

Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Coming-of-Age 

Length: 165min

Filmed in Britain, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit stars Charlotte Coleman as a champing-at-the-bit teenager named Jess. The girl's domineering mother (Geraldine McEwan), a religious fanatic, wants Jess to become a missionary; to that end, she refuses...

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Used People (1992)

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni Shirley MacLaine Jessica Tandy Kathy Bates David Watkin   

Tags: Domestic Comedy Ensemble Film Romance Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy 

Length: 116min

Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo balls. The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman (Shirley MacLaine) has just arrived back from the funeral...

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Vroom (1988)

Length: 89min

Jake (Clive Owen) and Ringe (David Thewlis) keep a 1950s American car under wraps in hopes of someday escaping their drab town. When Jake falls for divorcee Susan (Diana Quick), she joins Jake and Ringe on a joyride, but the excitement of their...

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Shades of Fear (1994)

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave John Hurt   

Tags: Romance Comedy Comedy of Manners Romantic Comedy 

Length: 92min

This British romantic comedy follows the exploits of a young woman determined to become an aviator in the 1950's. The story begins in the West Indies as plucky Gabriel Angel prepares to board a ship home to England to achieve her dreams of flying. Due...

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Antonia & Jane (1991)

Tags: Comedy Drama Buddy Film 

Length: 75min

From director Beeban Kidron, Antonia & Jane is a look at an enduring friendship between a pair of decidedly opposite people. Beautiful, sophisticated, and self-assured, Antonia (Saskia Reeves) has it all -- or so it seems to the pudgy wallflower Jane...

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