Gillies MacKinnon

Hideous Kinky (1998)

Cast: Kate Winslet   

Tags: Adventure Drama Period Film Drama Family Drama 

Length: 97min

Gillies MacKinnon directed this 5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in...

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Trojan Eddie (1996)

Tags: Romantic Drama Crime Drama Drama Romance 

Length: 103min

Set in Ireland, this beautifully rendered drama offers a fascinating portrait of a nomadic peddler who travels about the countryside selling housewares from his van. Trojan Eddie's unusual moniker comes from the logo upon his van. He works for John...

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Tara Road (2005)

Cast: Andie MacDowell Olivia Williams Stephen Rea Brenda Fricker   

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...

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Behind the Lines (1997)

Cast: Jonathan Pryce Jonny Lee Miller   

Tags: Drama War Drama Psychological Drama Period Film 

Length: 110min

This period drama was based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by author Pat Barker, one of a trilogy dealing with World War I. James Wilby stars as Siegfried Sassoon, the real-life war hero and poet who, in 1917, writes a statement against the war...

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Pure (2002)

Cast: Keira Knightley Molly Parker   

Tags: Drama Family Drama Addiction Drama 

Length: 96min

After forays into period war drama (Regeneration) and globe-trotting bohemia (Hideous Kinky), Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon returns to social realist melodrama with this tale of a ten-year-old desperately trying to parent his heroin-addicted...

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The Escapist (2002)

Cast: Jodhi May Andy Serkis   

Tags: Thriller Prison Film Escape Film Psychological Thriller 

Length: 88min

Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directs the revenge hriller The Escapist. Escaped convict Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis, Gollom in the Lord of the Rings trilogy) breaks into the house of commercial pilot Denis (Jonny Lee Miller) and kills his...

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The Playboys (1992)

Cast: Albert Finney Robin Wright Penn Aidan Quinn   

Tags: Period Film Romantic Drama Drama 

Length: 114min

Gillies MacKinnon directed this charming Irish omance, taking place in a small Irish village in 1957, just before the first television set makes an appearance in this conservative hamlet. There is a scandal in the village concerning the beautiful and...

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Small Faces (1995)

Tags: Urban Drama Coming-of-Age Drama Teen Movie 

Length: 102min

Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directed and co-wrote (with brother Billy MacKinnon) this semi-autobiographical drama set in the working class Glasgow of 1968. Thirteen-year-old Lex Maclean (Iain Robertson) is torn between his brothers, his only...

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A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

Cast: Laura Linney Catherine O'Hara Gabriel Byrne Steve Martin   

Tags: Melodrama Drama Family Drama 

Length: 106min

Steve Martin produced, wrote, and starred in this modernized adaptation of the George Eliot novel Silas Marner. Martin is miserly small-town hermit Michael McCann, who hoards his wealth in the form of a rare coin collection. When his coins are stolen,...

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