Erik the Viking 1989  PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Terry Jones
Cast: Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, Imogen Stubbs, Antony Sher, Freddie Jones, John Gordon Sinclair, Tsutomu Sekine, Gary Cady, Tim McInnerny, Samantha Bond
Eric (Tim Robbins) is tired of the Age of Ragnarok with its raping and pillaging. To find an alternative, he sets off on a journey to the end of the world accompanied by an unlikely bunch of groupies.
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Jack and Sarah 1995 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tim Sullivan
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Imogen Stubbs, Cherie Lunghi, Eileen Atkins, David(2) Swift
Set in London, this is the story of Jack (Richard E. Grant), a yuppie London lawyer, whose wife (Imogen Stubbs) dies in childbirth. Jack gets help from Amy (Samantha Mathis), an American who he hires as a nanny for his baby daughter, Sarah. The story then involves Jack's coming to terms with his new life as a father and trying to become a good parent.
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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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True Colors 1991 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark, Dina Merrill, Philip Bosco, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Brad Sullivan, Antonia Rey
The apparent void of political morality in the 1980s is shown through the lives of two college classmates (John Cusack and James Spader). Each comes from a different background and each has separate means and aims in life.
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Twelfth Night: Or What You Will 1996  PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Twelfth Night
Director: Trevor Nunn
Cast: Imogen Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Toby Stephens, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Farrell, Sydney Livingstone, James Walker, Alan Mitchell, Peter Gunn, Tim Bentinck
When Viola's (Imogen Stubbs) ship is capsized by a storm, she is washed ashore in the kingdom of Ilyria. She disguises herself as her own brother and enters the court of Count Orsino (Toby Stephens) who loves the fair Lady Olivia (Helena Bonham Carter). Viola falls in love with Orsino, but he believes that Viola is a man and asks her to help him gain the love of Lady Olivia. Matters worsen when Viola finds that Lady Olivia has fallen in love with her. Misadventures follow with the entire household involved in their own mischievous plots.
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| 1. Erik the Viking (1989)
2. Jack and Sarah (1995)
3. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
4. True Colors (1991)
5. Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
aka: Twelfth Night
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