Biography: Jon Amiel |

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Cast: Jennifer Connelly   
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama 
Length: 108min
Actor Paul Bettany and his real-life wife Jennifer Connolly star as controversial English scientist Charles Darwin and his wife Emily, respectively, in this biopic adapted from Randal Keynes' book -Annie's Box, which tells the story of Darwin's...

Cast: Hilary Swank Jon Amiel   
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Sci-Fi Disaster Film Action Science Fiction 
Length: 136min
An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of...

Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones Sean Connery   
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Caper 
Length: 113min
After a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment -- and he even gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones. When a priceless Rembrandt...

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
Cast: Alfred Molina Bill Murray   
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy Comedy of Errors 
Length: 94min
Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a...

Cast: Sigourney Weaver Holly Hunter   
Tags: Police Detective Film Thriller Mystery Psychological Thriller 
Length: 120min
A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the...

Cast: Jodie Foster James Earl Jones   
Tags: Romance Drama Psychological Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 114min
This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack...

Cast: Keanu Reeves Barbara Hershey Peter Falk Hope Lange Peter Gallagher Buck Henry   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 90min
Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, -Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara...

Tags: Family Drama Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama 
Length: 112min
The Queen of Hearts is an essentially Italian story given full and proper treatment by a virtually all-British crew. Anita Zagaria plays a lovely Italian lass, consigned to an arranged marriage with a wealthy Sicilian man. She balks at the altar and...

Cast: Michael Gambon   
Tags: Musical Detective Film Psychological Drama Musical Drama Drama 
Length: 415min
With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel -Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred...


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