Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 2004  R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Beeban Kidron
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Jacinda Barrett, Sally Phillips, James Faulkner, Celia Imrie, Dominic McHale, Donald(2) Douglas, Shirley Dixon, Neil Pearson, Rosalind Halstead, Tom Brooke
This sequel takes place four weeks after "Bridget Jones's Diary" ended. As Bridget (Renee Zellweger) grows increasingly unhappy about her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her ex-lover, Daniel (Hugh Grant), reenters the scene and thoroughly confuses Bridget's emotional decisions.
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 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Sharon Maguire
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson, Celia Imrie, Embeth Davidtz, Honor Blackman, James Faulkner, Charmian May, Paul Brooke, Shirley Henderson, James Callis
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a 30-something single woman who lives in London, works in the publishing industry, and worries about not finding success–both romantically and professionally. After being snubbed by Mark (Colin Firth), Bridget begins writing in her diary about trying to cut back on wine, cigarettes, and men. She begins getting sexy e-mails from her boss Daniel (Hugh Grant) and meets him for dinner. Daniel tells her that he and Mark went to college together, and Mark seduced his fiancee. Later, Bridget runs across Mark again, he expresses an interest in her, and now both men compete for Bridget's attention. Zellweger excels in her role of the biologically ticking Bridget, and she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
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Captain Jack 1999 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Peter McDonald, Gemma Jones, Maureen Lipman, Sadie Frost, Anna Massey, David Troughton, Michele Dotrice, Patrick Malahide, Kathryn Pogson
Sea Captain Jack Armistead (Bob Hoskins) doesn't think that his hero, Captain Scoresby, has been adequately honored for his trip from northern England to the Arctic waters in 1791. So he decides to retrace the route in his un-seaworthy (and condemned) ship. He gathers a motley crew consisting of two elderly sisters and an Australian hitchhiker–as well as a stowaway–and sets out on the voyage. Meanwhile, authorities and journalists are hot on his tail.
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Cotton Mary 2000  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ismail Merchant
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, Sakina Jaffrey, Prayag Raj, James Wilby, Laura Lumley, Gemma Jones, Sarah Badel, Joanna David, Olivia Caesar
Race and class determine lifestyles of a white British woman, Lily MacIntosh (Greta Scacchi), and an Anglo-Indian, Cotton Mary (Madhur Jaffrey). Mary wheedles herself into a position of authority in the MacIntosh household after she finds a wet nurse for Lily's baby and assumes the position of a powerful nanny.
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Don't Tempt Me 2001 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Agustin Diaz Yanes
Cast: Victoria Abril, Penelope Cruz, Fanny Ardant, Gael Garcia Bernal, Juan Echanove, Demian Bichir, Emilio Gutierrez Caba, Cristina Marcos, Gemma Jones, Elena Anaya, Bruno Bichir, Peter McDonald
Mexican boxer Manny (Demian Bichir) is close to committing suicide when an angel, Lola (Victoria Abril), from Heaven answers the call for help. But, the powers-that-be in Hell step in to interrupt the rescue and send their own agent, Carmen (Penelope Cruz), onto the scene.
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Feast of July 1995 R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christopher Menaul
Cast: Embeth Davidtz, Tom Bell, James Purefoy, Kenneth Anderson, Ben Chaplin, Greg Wise, Gemma Jones
Set in Victorian England, poor downtrodden Bella Ford (Embeth Davidtz) is rescued after giving birth to a stillborn baby and brought to the country home of Ben Wainwright (Tom Bell). She is admired by all three of Wainwright's sons but settles on Con (Ben Chaplin). All goes well until Con confronts the ogre who was responsible for Bella's earlier pregnancy.
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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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O.K. Garage 1998  R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: All Revved Up
Director: Brandon Cole
Cast: John Turturro, Lili Taylor, Will Patton, Gemma Jones, Joseph Maher, Paul Calderon, Bruce MacVittie, Richard Bright, Olek Krupa, John Spencer
Rachel (Lili Taylor) has continuing car problems but keeps taking her car to the same shady mechanic. She finally turns to friend Sean (Will Patton) for help, and he brings Johnny (John Turturro) along, starting a love triangle in this weak effort, despite the good cast.
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 Sense and Sensibility 1995  PG, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Greg Wise, Imogen Stubbs, Emilie Francois, Harriet Walter, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Gemma Jones, Robert Hardy, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Laurie
Jane Austen's tale is brought to the screen in this witty film with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson. It is the story of an attempt by the women of the Dashwood family to balance sense with sensibility in 19th-century British society. When they are left with nothing because the estate passed to the eldest son, sensible Elinor (Emma Thompson) is the daughter who sees the farce of courtship to attain social status through marriage. In addition to the Oscar, the film had six other nominations, including Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet).
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 Shanghai Knights 2003  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Action
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Johnson, Thomas Fisher, Aidan Gillen, Donnie Yen, Oliver Cotton, Alison King, Gemma Jones
The setting is 1880s' London for those mismatched pals–Chon (Jackie Chan) and Roy (Owen Wilson)–in this sequel to their "Shanghai Noon" (2000). Lots of banter and action in this entertaining film.
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The Theory of Flight 1998 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Jones, Holly Aird, Ray Stevenson, Sue Jones-Davies, Nia Roberts, Jill James, Ruth Jones, Gwenyth Petty
While doing community service as his sentence for jumping from a London skyscraper (he is obsessed with flying), Richard is assigned to wheelchair-confined Jane (Helena Bonham Carter). Jane's degenerative motor-neuron disease makes speech difficult and, at first, the two do not get along. But, they are stuck with each other and soon form a bond. When Jane confides that she wants a meaningful sexual relationship before she dies, Richard helps find a mate.
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Wilde 1997 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian Gilbert
Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Wilkinson, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Mills, Jason Morell, Peter Barkworth, Robert Lang, Philip Locke
Victorian playwright Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry)–poet, genius, and homosexual–was willing to stand his ground and not flee England when he was sentenced to two years of hard labor as a result of his love affair with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas (Jude Law). This film covers that aspect of his life.
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The Winslow Boy 1999 G, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, Guy Edwards, Matthew Pidgeon, Colin Stinton, Aden Gillett, Sarah Flind, Neil North
Based on a true incident that took place in 1912, this story traces the escalation of events as Arthur Winslow (Nigel Hawthorne) deals with what he perceives as his son's unfair treatment resulting in his expulsion from Osburne Naval College. His fight will soon expand to reach national proportions.
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| 1. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
2. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
3. Captain Jack (1999)
4. Cotton Mary (2000)
5. Don't Tempt Me (2001)
6. Feast of July (1995)
7. Longitude (2000)
8. O.K. Garage (1998)
aka: All Revved Up
9. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
10. Shanghai Knights (2003)
11. The Theory of Flight (1998)
12. Wilde (1997)
13. The Winslow Boy (1999)
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