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One of England's most esteemed actresses, Joan Plowright was trained at the Old Vic. She made her regional stage debut in 1951 and her London stage bow in 1954. Two years later, she joined the English Stage Company, where she essayed her most popular role up to that time, Margery Pincher in Wycherly's The Country Wife. That same year, she appeared in her first film, Moby Dick. In the original 1958 stage production of John Osborne's The Entertainer, Plowright co-starred with Sir Laurence Olivier, whom she would marry in 1961, a union that lasted until Olivier's death in 1989. She appeared on screen with her husband in the film versions of The Entertainer (1960) and The Three Sisters (1970), the latter of which was also directed by Olivier. During the same period, Plowright and Olivier were mainstays of London's National Theatre. In 1961, Plowright won a Tony award for her Broadway appearance in A Taste of Honey. Her stage work was briefly curtailed in the mid-to-late '60s, allowing her time to raise her family. From 1982 on, Plowright began appearing in films with increasing regularity, demonstrating at least two traits she'd evidently picked up from Olivier: a propensity for elaborate foreign accents (the hero's Jewish mother in Avalon (1990) and the heroine's Yugoslavian mom in I Love You to Death (1990)) and a willingness to take assignments possibly only for the money (Mrs. Wilson in Dennis the Menace (1993)). While an Oscar win is long overdue (although she was awarded a CBE from the Queen in 1970), Plowright was nominated for her work in 1992's Enchanted April. Perhaps one of her most endearing portrayals in recent years was as the high school teacher in The Last Action Hero who runs a clip from Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948) for her class, introducing Olivier as "the fellow who did all those Polaroid commercials." In 1999, Plowright additionally endeared herself to moviegoers with her role as one of a group of high society women living in fascist Italy in Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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I Am David (2004)
Tags: Drama Escape Film Childhood Drama
Length: 95min
A young boy is sent on a remarkable odyssey as he flees a Communist prison camp in this historical drama, set in Eastern Europe in the early '50s. David (Ben Tibber) is a 12-year-old boy who was sentenced with his parents to a Bulgarian labor camp...
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Goose on the Loose (2009)
Tags: Animal Picture Family Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: min
A little boy attempts to prevent a wisecracking goose from becoming the tastiest dish in a high-profile culinary contest in this live-action, family-oriented comedy starring Chevy Chase and Joan Plowright, and featuring the voice of Dave Foley....
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Rock My World (2001)
Cast: Peter O'Toole
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Comedy Comedy of Manners
Length: 116min
Veteran hack director Sidney J. Furie directs the silly straight-to-video comedy Rock My World. The aging stuffy English aristocrats Lord and Lady Foxley (Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright) have fallen on hard times, so they loan out the use of their...
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 108min
An elderly widow and a young would-be author strike up an unlikely friendship in this comedy drama. Mrs. Palfrey (Joan Plowright) has been uneasy since the death of her husband, and she decides to move from her long-time home in Scotland to London so...
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Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family-Oriented Adventure Fantasy
Length: 100min
Although Frances Hodgson Burnett did not feel the need to write a sequel to her classic fantasy novel -The Secret Garden, this did not prevent producer Norman Rosemont from commissioning just such a sequel. Set in 1946, Back to the Secret Garden finds...
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Callas Forever (2002)
Cast: Jeremy Irons
Tags: Musical Drama Biopic Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 108min
A mournful look at the last days of opera diva Maria Callas, director Franco Zeffirelli's biographical drama attempts to explore the irresistible allure of a comeback for a fallen star who hungers for the success of her past. Weathered from the excess...
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Bailey's Mistake (2001)
Cast: Joan Plowright
Tags: Mystery Family
Length: 90min
"Bailey's Mistake" is the apt cognomen for a dismal, virtually uninhabitable island off the coast of Maine. Upon finding that the island was secretly purchased by her late husband, impoverished widow Liz Donovan (Linda Hamilton) heads "down east" to...
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Dance with Me (1998)
Cast: Kris Kristofferson
Tags: Drama Romance Dance Film Romantic Drama
Length: 126min
Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of his mother. Rafael leaves Cuba for Houston, where he meets his father John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) for the first time....
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Frankie and Hazel (2000)
Cast: Barbra Streisand
Tags: Comedy Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 92min
Two friends get their first taste of adult responsibilities in this made-for-cable comedy-drama. Francesca (Mischa Barton) and Hazel (Ingrid Uribe) are two 12-year-old girls growing up in Percaucus, an economically depressed community that's seen...
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Tea With Mussolini (1999)
Cast: Franco Zeffirelli Lily Tomlin Maggie Smith Cher Judi Dench
Tags: Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age Period Film
Length: 116min
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was...
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