 Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London 2004  PG, 101 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Comedy / Adventure / Mystery
Director: Kevin Allen
Cast: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Anna Chancellor, Keith Allen, James Faulkner, David Kelly, Santiago Segura, Connor Widdows, Keith David, Joshua Brody, Rod Silvers, Jack Stanley
While being trained at Kamp Woody "summer camp" as a future CIA agent, 15-year-old Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is given a new partner, Derek (Anthony Anderson), and the assignment of tracking down demoted agent Diaz (Keith Allen) who is in cahoots with Lord Duncan Kenworth (James Faulkner) to use stolen mind control software to take over the minds of world leaders. Diaz is in London, and Cody enrolls in a British private school where he poses as a clarinet player in the band in order to retrieve the stolen mind-control device. At the school, Cody teams up with another teenager, Scotland Yard operative Emily (Hannah Spearritt), and they try to stop Diaz from taking over the world.
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 Crush 2001  R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John McKay
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson, Caroline Holdaway, Joe Roberts, Josh Cole, Gary Powell, Christian Burgess, Andrew Bicknell, Morris Perry, Roger Booth, Richenda Carey, Derek Deadman
Three single friends–headmistress Kate (Andie MacDowell), police inspector Janine (Imelda Staunton), and gynecologist Molly (Anna Chancellor)–have been meeting weekly to console each other. But, the consolation turns to jealousy when Kate embarks on an affair with a much younger man, Jed Willis (Kenny Doughty).
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Heart 1999  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles McDougall
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Saskia Reeves, Kate Hardie, Rhys Ifans, Anna Chancellor, Bill Paterson, Matthew Rhys, Jack Deam, Kate Rutter, Nicholas Moss
Gary (Christopher Eccleston) sits in a wheelchair awaiting a new heart after a heart attack, and is convinced that his wife, Tess (Kate Hardie), is having an affair (which she is). When a teen is killed in an accident, Gary gets his heart. Upon recovery, Tess lets him know she is leaving, and, to complicate his life, the teen's mother (Saskia Reeves) becomes infatuated with Gary. The mother wants to be near the man who has her son's heart. A lackluster thriller.
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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi
Director: Garth Jennings
Cast: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, John Malkovich, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor, Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Stephen Fry, Thomas Lennon
Just before aliens act on their plans to destroy Earth, Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is whisked off on an adventure-filled ride around the Galaxy.
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Longitude 2000  TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Gemma Jones, Nigel Davenport, Frank Finlay, Liam Jennings, John Wood, John Standing, Peter Cartwright, Anna Chancellor
Based on David Sobol's 1995 biography, this story centers on two men: John Harrison (Michael Gambon) who invented the marine chronometer during the 18th century and Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons) who was obsessed with restoring Harrison's chronometer in the 20th century.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little 1997 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, Geraldine James, John Standing, Anna Chancellor, Nicholas Woodeson, Simon Chandler
Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) travels to London to visit his brother James (Peter Gallagher) and is given a ticket to an audience participation game, "Theater of Life." He is then mistaken for someone else and ends up at the center of an espionage plot.
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 Pride and Prejudice 1995  TV, 280 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Simon Langton
Cast: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor, Susannah Harker, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Adrian Lukis, Julia Sawalha, Alison Steadman, Benjamin Whitrow, Emilia Fox, Christopher Benjamin, Anthony Calf
This excellent TV miniseries does justice to Jane Austen's classic tale of the relationships of two people caught in the 19th-century class system when headstrong Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) meets wealthy Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth). Darcy courts Elizabeth, and problems ensue over the issues of manners and love when the couple learns that they must deal with their different perspectives on life if they are to live their lives together.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars 2007 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Mystery
aka: Baker Street Irregulars
Director: Julian Kemp
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Anna Chancellor, Michael Maloney, Aaron Johnson, Benjamin Smith, Mia Fernandez, Brendan Patricks, Dean Gibbons, Alice Hewkin, Megan Jones
In this made-for-TV production, Sherlock Holmes (Jonathan Pryce) is helping police Inspector Stirling (Michael Maloney) investigate the death of a policeman. Another officer is killed, and Holmes is put under house arrest for the murders after police find stolen jade spoons in his attic. Meanwhile, two members of the Baker Street Irregulars are kidnapped, and those street kids work with Holmes to free the kidnap victims, solve the murder Holmes is accused of committing, and prevent a heist in the process.
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What a Girl Wants 2003 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Dennie Gordon
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Anna Chancellor, Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce, Christina Cole, Soleil McGhee, Peter Reeves, Chris Mulkey
What a girl wants in this case is to meet her father. NYC teenager Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) heads to England to introduce herself to her father, Lord Dashwood (Colin Firth). She wins him over and ensures that her dreams of reuniting her family will come true.
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| 1. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
2. Crush (2001)
3. The Dreamers (2003)
4. Heart (1999)
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
6. Longitude (2000)
7. The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
8. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
9. Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
aka: Baker Street Irregulars
10. What a Girl Wants (2003)
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