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Supporting actress, onscreen from the '80s. ~ All Movie Guide more
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Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 93min
Yesterday's secrets breed today's nightmares in this dark drama concerning three strangers who will kill to protect what is rightfully theirs. Jean (Penelope Wilton) is a professional house sitter on the eve of retirement. Before Jean stops taking...

Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 94min
A weary London novelist looking to escape her failing marriage flees the city for her Yorkshire cottage only to find that country charm can mask menacing intent in director Tristram Powell's tense tale of romantic deceit. Daisy Langrish (Penelope...

Cast: Kate Winslet Judi Dench Jim Broadbent Sydney Pollack James Horner   
Tags: Drama Biopic Marriage Drama 
Length: 90min
Based on a pair of memoirs by her husband John Bayley, this biographical portrait of writer Iris Murdoch stars both Judi Dench and Kate Winslet as the philosophical author at different stages of her life. When the young Iris (Winslet) meets fellow...

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1999)
Cast: Kate Beckinsale   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Family 
Length: 90min
Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy about a young girl's adventures in a strange, alternate reality comes to the screen once again in this television adaptation, which stars Kate Beckinsale as Alice, Penelope Wilton as the White Queen, Ian Holm as the...

Cast: Ian Holm   
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Family-Oriented Adventure Fantasy Family 
Length: 164min
Based on the famous children's novels by Mary Norton, this BBC production stars the diminutive Ian Holm as the even-more-diminutive patriarch of The Borrowers, a family of thumb-sized creatures looking for a new place to live. Directed by John...

Cast: Joanne Whalley Juliet Stevenson   
Tags: Family Drama Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 96min
David Hare adapted his play about the tensions simmering within a British family, which erupt with the death of their patriarch. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide

Return of the Borrowers (1993)
Cast: Sian Phillips   
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family 
Length: 165min
First telecast by the BBC on November 14, 1993, the two-part British TV movie The Return of the Borrowers is a sequel to the classic children's book by Mary Norton. Real-life husband and wife Ian Holm and Penelope Wilton head the cast as Pod and...

Cast: Denzel Washington Richard Attenborough Kevin Kline Ian Richardson   
Tags: Drama Biopic Political Drama 
Length: 157min
Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who...

Cast: John Cleese Alison Steadman   
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy of Errors Comedy 
Length: 96min
John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is fully exploited in the British comedy Clockwise. Cleese portrays Brian Stimpson, a perfectionist English headmaster who has been selected to make an...

Cast: Anthony Hopkins Bob Hoskins   
Length: 208min
Othello (Anthony Hopkins) is a noble black Moor held in high regard by Venice for his service as a military general. However, he makes a deadly enemy in his ensign Iago (Bob Hoskins) after he promotes Michael Cassio (David Yelland), not Iago, to the...



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