 Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Webber
Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, Joanna Scanlan, Alakina Mann, Anna Popplewell, Anais Nepper, Nathan Nepper, Melanie Meyfroid, Chris McHallem, Gabrielle Reidy, Rollo Weeks
Based on Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, this is the story of 17-year-old Griet (Scarlett Johansson) who, while working as a maid at the Vermeer family estate, modeled for the portrait that would become one of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's (Colin Firth) greatest works of art. Griet modeled for Vermeer, but she entered a deal that required her modeling without letting Vermeer's wife (Essie Davis) know that she would be part of the picture.
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Hardware 1990  R, 93 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Stanley
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop, Mark Northover, Paul McKenzie, Lemmy, Mac McDonald, Carl McCoy, Chris McHallem, Barbara Yu Ling, Oscar James, Arnold Lee, Susie Savage
Set in a post-apocalyptic world covered by contaminated debris fields, people live in cramped dwellings eating synthetic food. The birthrate of mutants is also increasing, resulting in the use of a Cyborg force to control population. One man, Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott), dares to venture out in the wasteland, where he picks up debris that he might be able to sell. He comes across some android parts, which he takes to his girlfriend, Jill (Stacey Travis), who welds metal art objects. But the new find is part of a Cyborg, and it rebuilds itself from the parts Jill has on hand and then begins a killing rampage.
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St. Ives 1998 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Harry Hook
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Miranda Richardson, Richard E. Grant, Anna Friel, Tim Dutton, Cecile Pallas, Michael Gough, Jason Isaacs, Barney Craig, Desmond Barrit, Vernon Dobtcheff, Patrice Melennec, Adrian Scarborough, Chris McHallem, Enda Oates
During the Napoleonic Wars, French Captain Jacques St. Ives (Jean-Marc Barr) is captured and sent to a POW camp in Scotland. The action begins after he meets a local woman, Flora (Anna Friel), the daughter of her protective mother Susan (Miranda Richardson) and is befriended by the commander of the camp, Major Farquhar Chevening (Richard E. Grant). Loosely based on an unfinished Robert Louis Stevenson novel, his last.
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| 1. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
2. Hardware (1990)
3. St. Ives (1998)
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