Biography: Frances O'Connor |

From bringing the characters of Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest), Jane Austen (Mansfield Park), and Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary) to life on the big screen to escaping into the outback with a wanted man (Kiss or Kill), nurturing an... more
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Tags: Drama Urban Drama 
Length: 115min

Cast: Richard Donner   
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Action Science Fiction 
Length: 138min
Directing his first film since 1998's Lethal Weapon 4, Richard Donner helmed this big-budget adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Featuring a script by first-time screenwriter George Nolfi, Timeline begins in France in the near...

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...

Cast: Anjelica Huston Hilary Swank   
Tags: Period Film Docudrama Biopic Drama Feminist Film 
Length: 123min
German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank plays Alice Paul, an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women's citizenship and the...

Cast: Harold Ramis   
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Romantic Comedy Fantasy Comedy 
Length: 93min
How far will a man go to win the woman he loves? That's the devilish question behind this satirical romantic comedy. Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser), a low-level white-collar worker, has fallen in love with his co-worker Allison (Frances O'Connor),...

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Cast: Tom Wilkinson Reese Witherspoon Judi Dench Rupert Everett Frances O'Connor   
Tags: Comedy Romance Period Film Comedy of Manners Comedy of Errors Romantic Comedy 
Length: 97min
A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady,...

Tags: Romantic Drama Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy 
Length: 105min
Gerard Stembridge directs this charming comedy about a handsome stranger who wreaks havoc on an entire family. Pub torch singer Lucy Owen (Kate Hudson) falls for Adam (Stuart Townsend) as soon as she lays eyes on him. Tired of a string of failed...

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Cast: Steven Spielberg Jude Law William Hurt Haley Joel Osment John Williams Meryl Streep Ben Kingsley Janusz Kaminski 
Tags: Psychological Sci-Fi Tech Noir Science Fiction Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 145min
Based on the 1969 short story -Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend...

Tags: Drama Marriage Drama 
Length: 85min
Writer/director Alan Brown makes his feature-length debut with the comedy drama Book of Love, following his award-winning short film O Beautiful (released as part of Boys Life 4: Four Play). High school history teacher David (Simon Baker) is newly...

Cast: Harold Pinter   
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Period Film Feminist Film Romance 
Length: 110min
Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is being raised by loving but desperately poor parents. Wanting a better life for Fanny, they send her away to live...
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