Biography: Oliver Parker |
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Cast: Ben Chaplin
Length: 112min
Cast: Rupert Everett
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 97min
The uniformed but rebellious students of a distinguished all-girls school get an unexpected chance to raise a little hell as directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson set out to revive the characters created by comic artist Ronald Searle and made...
Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy
Length: 89min
As the employees at a London restaurant prepare for the arrival of a high-profile Hollywood actor, it quickly becomes apparent that the five women working to make this important meal a success suffer form delusions of grandeur. In the eye of most...
Cast: Christopher Walken Diego Luna Danny Huston
Tags: Thriller Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Period Film
Length: min
A screen legend is drawn into a murder mystery that reaches to the highest ranks of the entertainment industry in director Oliver Parker's 1940s-era hriller featuring a sleuthing Orson Welles (played by Danny Huston). The year is 1948 and, having...
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon Judi Dench Colin Firth Frances O'Connor Tom Wilkinson Edward Fox
Tags: Comedy Romance Period Film Comedy of Manners Comedy of Errors Romantic Comedy
Length: 97min
A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady,...
Cast: Julianne Moore Jeremy Northam Cate Blanchett
Tags: Comedy Period Film Comedy of Manners Sophisticated Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 96min
A romantic and sentimental comedy set at the turn of the 19th century, An Ideal Husband delves into themes of love, passion, and betrayal among the aristocracy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam), a brilliant politician and a perfect gentleman, is...
Cast: Kenneth Branagh Laurence Fishburne William Shakespeare
Tags: Period Film Tragedy Drama
Length: 105min
Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half and ups the quotient of sex and violence. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Moorish general Othello,...
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