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A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Stage, Bill Paterson made a name for himself in Scotland's burgeoning "alternative theatre" movement. He was most prominently associated with a theatrical aggregation known as the 7:84... more
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Tags: Drama
Length: 285min
Cast: Emily Watson Ewan McGregor Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein
Length: 92min
The true story of the woman who created some of the most beloved characters in children's literature comes to the screen in this drama leavened with elements of comedy and omance. Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) is a imaginative but gently...
Cast: Andie MacDowell
Tags: Romance Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 122min
A woman edging into middle age finally finds the love of a lifetime; too bad she can't convince her best friends it's for real in this lively romantic comedy. Kate (Andie MacDowell), Molly (Anna Chancellor), and Janine (Imelda Staunton) are three...
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: min
Screen star Jonathan Pryce deftly portrays Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth in the made-for-television production Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars. Based on an original story in lieu of a Doyle novel, the feature revolves...
Cast: Bill Paterson Anthony Minghella Alan Rickman Juliet Stevenson
Tags: Romance Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Fantasy Romantic Fantasy
Length: 107min
Pianist Nina (Juliet Stevenson) and cellist Jamie (Alan Rickman) played together and loved together. When they weren't making music with each other, they made love. It was an idyllic romantic and musical partnership, and when Jamie dies, Nina takes it...
Tags: Addiction Drama Crime Drama Crime
Length: 325min
This four-hour, six-episode British miniseries, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1989 and in America on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 1990, provided the basis for Traffic, Steven Soderbergh's 2000 Oscar winner. Though Soderbergh and screenwriter Stephen...
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)
Cast: Tom Waits
Length: 95min
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) may be no good to anyone, but he's not particularly mean about it. After all, he left his girlfriend behind because the men from the casino were after him for stealing money, not her. He flees to England and becomes part...
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 211min
Director Gavin Miller adapts Scottish author Iain Banks' novel about a troubled young man striving to unearth the secrets of his family past while simultaneously sleuthing to find out what fate really befell his long-missing uncle. Prentice McHoan...
Cast: Alan Bates Sinéad Cusack
Tags: Detective Film Romantic Mystery Mystery
Length: 245min
The title character in this five-part British miniseries was a university lecturer (Alan Bates) with a fondness for anagrams and crossword puzzles. Laid off from his academic job, Oliver embarks upon a search for Aristotle, his favorite crossword...
Cast: Nicolas Roeg Anjelica Huston Mai Zetterling Jim Henson
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Fantasy Family
Length: 92min
In Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel -The Witches, a young boy is vacationing at the seaside with his grandmother when he discovers that the hotel he is staying at is hosting a convention of witches. Eavesdropping on the witches, he...
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