 A Close Shave 1995  N/R, 30 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
aka: Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
Director: Nick Park
Cast: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid
This Academy Award winning stop-action animated film is the fourth entry starring Wallace and Gromit. This time Wallace is romantically interested in the beautiful Wendolene who, in turn, sets up Wallace as the foil for her sheep-rustling plot.
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Liam 2000  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Anthony Borrows, David Hart, Megan Burns, Anne Reid, Russell Dixon, Julia Deakin, Andrew Schofield, Bernadette Shortt
Most of this story is told through the perspective of seven-year-old Liam (Anthony Borrows) whose Irish immigrant father (Ian Hart) lost his job at a Liverpool dock yard during the 1930s' Depression when dire economic times exacerbated problems between Jews and Catholics. The Jewish Samuels family, for example, owned the dock yard at which many Irish Catholics were working. Liam's sister, Teresa (Megan Burns), tried to solve the family's financial plight by finding work at the Samuels' estate, where she now finds herself serving as a look-out for Mrs. Samuels (June Gurnett) who is enjoying an illicit affair right under her husband's nose.
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A Little Trip to Heaven 2005 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, Peter Coyote, Philip Jackson, Anne Reid, Alfred Harmsworth, Joanna Scanlan, Iddo Goldberg, Vladas Bagdonas, Phyllida Law, Kharl Anton Leigh
Insurance agent Abe Holt (Forest Whitaker) is sent from the scene of a bus crash miles away to Hastings, Minnesota, to investigate another crash: a fatal car accident that left only charred remains. If the claim goes through, the beneficiary of a $1,000,000 death benefit is the victim's sister Isold (Julia Stiles) who lives in a run-down cabin with her husband Fred (Jeremy Renner) and son Thor (Vladas Bagdonas). During the investigation, Fred becomes the prime suspect in what Holt has now determined to be a murder case in which the car victim's identity was forged. But, as he gets to know Isold, Holt's professionalism wavers.
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The Mother 2003 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw, Steven Mackintosh, Peter Vaughan, Anna Wilson-Jones, Oliver Ford Davies, Danira Govich, Harry Michell, Rosie Michell, Isabella Telezynska, Carlo Kureishi
Recently widowed May (Anne Reid) enters into an affair with married daughter Paula's (Cathryn Bradshaw) lover (Daniel Craig) in this story that examines facets of illicit, intergenerational relationships taking place under the same roof.
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Savage Grace 2008  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Kalin
Cast: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde, Anne Reid, Belen Rueda, Hugh Dancy, Simon Andreu, Jim Arnold, Barney Clarke, Abel Folk, Mapi Galan, Lina Lambert, Minnie Marx
This six-part screenplay, based on a true story, takes place in Paris, Spain, Mallorca, and London during a period from 1946 to 1972. The plot follows the lives of Barbara Baekeland (Julianne Moore) and her son Tony (Barney Clarke as a child and Eddie Redmayne as an adult). Tony's father, Brooks (Stephen Dillane), thinks that his son is a failure, but over the years Barbara and Tony grow close–in fact, they even become lovers who sleep not only with each other but with bisexual Sam (Hugh Dancy) as well. The disintegration of the Baekeland family continues with disastrous results.
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| 1. A Close Shave (1995)
aka: Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
2. Liam (2000)
3. A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
4. The Mother (2003)
5. Savage Grace (2008)
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