Biography: Brenda Fricker |
An Irish actress with strong roots in the theater, Brenda Fricker has excelled onscreen thanks to a matronly appearance that lends itself well to roles which call for an older woman with strong motherly instincts. Fricker started out working in local... more
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Cast: Brenda Fricker
Tags: Drama
Length: 178min
Betrayal proves more tragic than death in this tale of a newly widowed wife and mother who discovers that her late husband had been secretly married to another woman. Maureen Lessing (Academy Award-winner Brenda Fricker) always thought she knew her...
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave Joss Ackland
Tags: Comedy Drama Holiday Film Slice of Life
Length: 100min
This Irish comedy focuses on a woman named Ellie, who despite her family reputation as the wild free spirit, is left in charge of her sister Kate's retirement home when Kate is called home to care for their ailing mother. Ellie already has an aversion...
Cast: Stephen Rea
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 97min
Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, and Stephen Rae star in this bittersweet tale of two grieving women connected by an accidental phone call. Connecticut mother Marilyn Vine (MacDowell) has always lived a charmed life, so when her adolescent son Dale...
Tags: Family Drama Drama Political Drama Docudrama
Length: 106min
A devastated father struggles to find answers after a bomb detonated in the peaceful Irish town of Omagh claims the life of his twenty-one year-old son in this topical docudrama from writer/producer Paul Greengrass and director Pete Travis. In 1988 a...
Cast: Shirley MacLaine Richard Attenborough Christopher Plummer Neve Campbell
Tags: War Drama War Romance Drama
Length: 119min
Sixty-five years after making his screen debut as a young stoker in co-directors Noël Coward and David Lean's World War II drama In Which We Serve, Richard Attenborough perfects the balance between epic story and intimate tale with this drama...
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)
Cast: Robert Davi
Length: 120min
Sopranos ingenue Jamie-Lynn DiScala stars as the infamous Hollywood madam in this made-for-cable io-flick. Produced without the participation of Heidi Fleiss herself, Call Me traces the -Pandering author's progression from pampered daughter of a...
Cast: Colin Firth
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 93min
U.K. filmmaker Marc Evans directs the psychological thriller Trauma, produced for the Ministry of Fear division of Little Bird Productions. Colin Firth stars as Ben, a man who wakes up from a coma to discover his wife, Elisa (Naomie Harris), has been...
Tags: Comedy Drama Medical Drama Buddy Film
Length: 103min
Two guys facing more challenges than most people learn some valuable lessons about life and love in this comedy drama. Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) is a young man in his early twenties who suffers from cerebral palsy; confined to a wheelchair,...
Cast: Joel Schumacher Cate Blanchett
Tags: Crime Thriller Biopic Drama
Length: 98min
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joel Schumacher take on the real-life story of an assassinated Irish journalist in the dramatic hriller Veronica Guerin. Cate Blanchett appears as the title character, a relentless crime reporter for ~The...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Religious Drama
Length: 86min
U.K. filmmaker John Deery makes his writing and directing feature debut with the eligious drama Conspiracy of Silence, dealing with the controversial topic of reforming the Catholic Church. At an Irish seminary school, student Daniel McLaughlin...
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