Biography: James McAvoy |

Onscreen for nearly a decade at the time he was cast in director Kevin McDonald's The Last King of Scotland, Glasgow-born actor James McAvoy seemed to many an overnight sensation. The fact is, however, that the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and... more
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Cast: Helen Mirren Christopher Plummer   
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama 
Length: min
The final year of Russian Socialist writer Leo Tolstoy comes to the screen with Christopher Plummer in the lead role and Helen Mirren portraying his wife, Sofia. Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff co-star in the Warner Bros. production,...

Tags: Family Musical Children's Fantasy 
Length: min
William Shakespeare's tragic omance gets a garden-gnome twist in this computer-animated musical featuring the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, with music by Elton John. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast: Angelina Jolie Terence Stamp Morgan Freeman   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Action Action Thriller 
Length: 124min
Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has...

Cast: Maggie Smith   
Tags: Drama Period Film Romantic Drama 
Length: 120min
Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this omantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev....

The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Cast: Forest Whitaker Gillian Anderson   
Tags: Drama Political Drama Docudrama 
Length: 121min
Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes...

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave   
Tags: Period Film Romantic Epic Romance 
Length: 123min
A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently changed the lives of all involved in a film that re-teams the filmmakers behind Pride & Prejudice to adapt...

Cast: Tom Hanks Sam Mendes   
Tags: Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age Romantic Comedy 
Length: 96min
A working-class English boy who has been fortunate enough to be accepted into a posh private university struggles to realize his lifelong dream while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl he loves in a romantic, bittersweet comedy directed by...

Cast: Christina Ricci Reese Witherspoon Richard E. Grant Catherine O'Hara   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 101min
A kindly aristocrat suffering from an unsightly curse breaks free from her extravagant, prison-like estate to seek adventure and discover her true self in a romantic, modern-day fairy tale directed by Mark Palansky and starring Christina Ricci, James...

Cast: Brenda Fricker   
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,...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
Cast: Liam Neeson Jim Broadbent Rupert Everett Tilda Swinton   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Children's Fantasy Fantasy Family 
Length: 139min
Four siblings -- Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell) -- are sent from their London home to the country estate of an eccentric professor in order to ensure their safety during World War...
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