Charms for the Easy Life 2002  TV, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt, Geordie Johnson, Kenneth Mitchell, Wayne Robson, Kayla Perlmutter, Kirsten Kieferle, Christine Rotenberg, Sylvie Weir
In the early 1900s, eccentric Charlie (Gena Rowlands) heads a family consisting of her daughter, Sophia (Mimi Rogers), and granddaughter (Susan May Pratt). Her husband had previously left Charlie and, after Sophia's husband died at a young age, Sophia and her daughter move in with Charlie. This made-for-TV film covers the family's story over the following few decades. Based on a novel by Kaye Gibbons.
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 The English Patient 1996  R, 162 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jurgen Prochnow, Clive Merrison, Kevin Whately, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Ruhring, Torri Higginson, Geordie Johnson
Based on Michael Ondaatje's novel, this is the story of the changing of Count Laszlo de Almasy's (Ralph Fiennes) life by aristocrat Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott-Thomas) in 1938. Now, in 1944, following his World War II plane crash, the count, nursed by Canadian Hana (Juliette Binoche), remembers events leading to the accident in which he was badly burned. The movie won an impressive nine Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress (Binoche).
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2. The English Patient (1996)
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