A Christmas Carol 1999  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Fantasy
Director: David Hugh Jones
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice, Saskia Reeves, Desmond Barrit, Bernard Lloyd, Dominic West, Trevor Peacock, Liz Smith, Claire Slater, Ben Tibber, Elizabeth Spriggs, Kenny Doughty, Laura Fraser
Patrick Stewart makes an excellent Ebenezer Scrooge in this fine TV adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Christmas story. After visits from the Ghosts of Christmas Past (Joel Grey), Present (Desmond Barrit), and Future (Tim Potter), Scrooge re-evaluates his treatment of Tiny Tim (Ben Tibber) and and his family. It ranks among the best of the several film renditions.
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 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1996  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Adrian Noble
Cast: Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings, Desmond Barrit, Finbar Lynch, Osheen Jones, Monica Dolan, Alfred Burke, Emily Button, Howard Crossley, Kevin Doyle, Ann Hasson, Emily Raymond, Daniel Evans, Kenn Sabberton, Robert Gillespie
The Royal Shakespeare Company presents its interpretation of the bard's comedy in a lively and colorful fashion. It is the story of four mixed-up lovers who get caught up in an argument between Titania (Lindsay Duncan) and Oberon (Alex Jennings), the king and queen of the fairies.
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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. A Christmas Carol (1999)
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
3. St. Ives (1998)
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