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Another Country 1984 2 and a half stars

    PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Marek Kanievska
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Betsy Brantley, Rupert Wainwright, Tristan Oliver, Cary Elwes, Geoffrey Bateman, Philip Dupuy, Frederick Alexander, Adrian Ross Magenty, Tristram Jellinek, Anna Massey

  Set in a 1930s' English boarding school, this adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play is faithful in its delivery of exploring how his homosexuality leads Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) to Marxist politics and then on to espionage.

Five Days One Summer 1982 2 stars

    PG, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean, Gerard Buhr, Anna Massey

  A Scottish doctor and a young woman hire a guide for a mountain-climbing adventure in the Alps. Obsessive passions develop as the three spend five days together on their trek.

The Fourth Protocol 1987 3 stars

    R, 119 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Mackenzie
Cast: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Betsy Brantley, Peter Cartwright, Matt Frewer, Julian Glover, Michael Gough, Sean Chapman

  British agent John Preston (Michael Caine) thinks something is not quite right, and he is correct. It seems the KGB plans to smuggle in a nuclear bomb and then set it off near a British air base.

Rogue Trader 1999 1 and a half stars

      R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Dearden
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Nigel Lindsay, Tim McInnerny, Irene Ng, Yves Beneyton, Betsy Brantley, Lee Ross, Simon Shepherd, John Standing

  The ambition of futures trader Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor) led to one of the world's greatest financial disasters: the 1995 collapse of the Barings Bank. This is the story of how it all came about as Leeson juggled figures and covered mistakes that brought about the bank's bankruptcy.

Schizopolis 1996 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Steven Soderbergh, Betsy Brantley, David Jensen, Mike Malone, L. Christian Mixon, Katherine LaNasa, Linda Nitsch, Eddie Jemison, Scott Allen, C.C. Courtney

  "Eventualism" is a scientology cult, and its members include Fletcher Munson (Steven Soderbergh) and the leader, T. Azimuth Schwitters (Mike Malone). The story becomes a play on words in which characters have unique ways of describing things. Soderbergh also plays a dentist, Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, who is having an affair with Fletcher Munson's wife.

Washington Square 1997 3 stars

    PG, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey, Betsy Brantley, Arthur Laupus, Jennifer Garner, Robert(2) Stanton, Nancy Daly

  Based on Henry James' novella, this story is about the on-again, off-again relationship of the very wealthy Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney) and his daughter Catherine (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who is experiencing a blossoming affection for her less-than-wealthy tutor. Love or money–that is Catherine's dilemma.

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