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Though Brenda Blethyn has enjoyed a long and successful career as an actress on the British stage and in television, it wasn't until the release of Mike Leigh's film Secrets and Lies in 1996 that she became well-known to moviegoers as well, earning a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for what was only her third film. Blethyn's early stage experience included stints in the stock companies of the Bubble Theatre and the Belgrade Theater of Coventry. In 1975, she joined the Royal National Theater, where she worked with some of Britain's leading stage directors, including Peter Wood, Peter Hall, and Bill Bryden, and her roles ran the gamut from Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House to Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday. With the Royal Shakespeare Company, she appeared under the direction of Maximillian Schell in Tales From the Vienna Woods and in Alan Ayckbourn's Wildest Dream. In 1991, she received the British Drama Awards' Best Actress prize for her role in Steaming and the Theatre World Awards' Outstanding New Talent prize for her role in the Broadway production of Absent Friends. Blethyn made her film debut in 1990, with a small part in Nicholas Roeg's The Witches. Robert Redford cast her as Brad Pitt's mother in A River Runs Through It in 1992, but 1996's Secrets and Lies provided Blethyn with her first substantial screen role. In a story developed through six months of improvisations with Leigh and the cast, Blethyn's performance as a woman getting to know the daughter she had given up made her an international sensation almost overnight. Blethyn received another Oscar nomination in 1999, for her role as the overbearing mother in Little Voice; her nomination complemented her growing popularity in Hollywood, reflected by her casting in such high profile projects as Billy Bob Thornton's Daddy and Them (1999). The following year, Blethyn again earned raves for her starring role in Saving Grace, a comedy about a woman forced to start growing marijuana to stave off creditors following her husband's death. On television, Blethyn has appeared in BBC productions of King Lear and Henry VI, Part One, as well as several series, including The Labours of Erica, The Buddha of Suburbia, and Outside Edge, which first teamed her with Secrets and Lies co-star Timothy Spall. ~ All Movie Guide less

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London River (2009)
Tags: Drama Social Problem Film
Length: 90min
It marked a sickening and devastating second act to 9/11: on July 7, 2005, a series of bombs exploded on the London subways, all ignited by terrorist extremists. Over 700 people were severely injured, 56 people killed; authorities later discovered a...
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Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn
Tags: Family Drama Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 106min
An already-unstable household becomes a virtual battle zone when the son of a risqué comedienne and a has-been singer finds mom meddling in his love life in director Cherie Nowlan's dysfunctional omantic comedy. Twenty-one-year-old Tim Dwight (Khan...
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Mysterious Creatures (2006)
Cast: Timothy Spall
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 69min
Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall headline this family drama inspired by the true story of two parents whose adult daughter suffers from an unknown ailment that makes her behavior highly erratic, and occasionally destructive. Bill and Wendy Ainscow...
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Piccadilly Jim (2005)
Cast: Tom Wilkinson Frances O'Connor
Tags: Romance Comedy Period Film Comedy of Manners Romantic Comedy
Length: 97min
Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is an American ne'er-do-well living in England with his tolerant father, Bingley (Tom Wilkinson), and his snooty, social-climbing stepmother, Eugenia (Allison Janney). As the film opens, Jim has been fouling up Eugenia's...
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Cast: Donald Sutherland Judi Dench Jane Austen Jena Malone
Tags: Romance Comedy Comedy of Manners Period Film Romantic Comedy
Length: 126min
Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of...
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Beyond the Sea (2004)
Cast: Kevin Spacey John Goodman Greta Scacchi
Tags: Period Film Drama Musical Drama Biopic
Length: 118min
Kevin Spacey serves as both director and star for this iopic based on the life and career of legendary entertainer Bobby Darin, which moves back and forth between his childhood and adult selves to tell the tale of his remarkable life. Born Bobby...
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On a Clear Day (2005)
Tags: Family Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 99min
A middle-aged man gives himself the challenge of a lifetime in this comedy drama from the U.K. Frank (Peter Mullan) has spent most of his 55 years working the same job in the shipyards of Glasgow until he's fired after business tapers off and...
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A Way of Life (2004)
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Social Problem Film
Length: 90min
A single teenage mother operating along the margins of society unleashes a bitter torrent of anger on her unsuspecting neighbors in first-time director Amma Assante's seething psychological drama. Leigh-Ann (Stephanie James) may seem like a victim to...
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The Sleeping Dictionary (2002)
Cast: Bob Hoskins
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Romance
Length: 109min
Guy Jenkin directs this straight-to-video omantic drama shot on-location in Malaysia. In the rainforests of Boreno in the 1930s, English officer John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) accepts a position to colonize the native population of Sarawak at the request...
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Blizzard (2003)
Cast: LeVar Burton Whoopi Goldberg Christopher Plummer
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family Holiday Film
Length: 99min
A young girl still saddened by the decision of her best friend's family to move away learns an important life lesson about change from her eccentric aunt in this family-friendly holiday tale directed by LeVar Burton and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin...
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