Biography: Lesley Manville |
A member of director Mike Leigh's hardworking repertory cast, British actress Lesley Manville started acting in U.K. television dramas during the early '80s. After her debut feature in 1985 for the crime drama Dance With a Stranger, she found her... more
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Cast: Bob Hoskins Stockard Channing Anthony Head Tom Hunsinger Neil Hunter
Length: 104min
Academy Award nominees Stockard Channing and Bob Hoskins co-headline the British omantic comedy Sparkle, the third outing by the critically-praised writing and directing team of Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger (Lawless Heart, Boyfriends). Neophyte...
Cast: David Warner Christopher Eccleston
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 92min
A simple lie yields deadly consequences in writer/director Joe Ahearne's drama about two parents who lie about their religion to get their daughter into a high performing Catholic school. Ten year-old Lucy has just witnessed a deadly knife attack at...
Cast: Alain Sarde Lesley Manville
Tags: Ensemble Film Urban Drama Family Drama Drama
Length: 128min
After a rather decided departure with his 1999 homage to Gilbert and Sullivan, Topsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh returns to his usual form for All or Nothing, a melancholy look at the day-to-day lives of a dysfunctional lower-middle class British family called...
Cast: Mike Leigh Jim Broadbent Timothy Spall Shirley Henderson Kevin McKidd
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Biopic Comedy Drama
Length: 160min
Noted for intimate character studies created in collaboration with his actors, director Mike Leigh makes a dramatic change of pace with this biography of comic opera composers W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) is an easily...
Cast: Helen Mirren Franco Nero
Length: 240min
Helen Mirren played the title character in the two-part British miniseries Painted Lady. In the throes of poverty and drug abuse, Irish folk singer Maggie Sheridan (Mirren) pulled herself together when her wealthy and well-connected landlord was...
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