As You Like It 2006  PG, 127 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Brian Blessed, Romola Garai, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Kline, Adrian Lester, Janet McTeer, Alfred Molina, David Oyelowo, Richard Briers, Jimmy Yuill, Alex Wyndham, Jade Jefferies, Gerard Horan
William Shakespeare's play is again brought to the screen–this time transplanted from the Forest of Arden to 19th-century Japan. Rosalind (Bryce Dallas Howard) disguises herself as a boy, Ganymede, and, escaping a death threat, leaves the court after her father is banished. Traveling with her are her cousin Celia (Romola Garai) and the court jester Touchstone (Alfred Molina). Along the way, she runs into the man she loves, Orlando (David Oyelowo). Now, Rosalind uses her disguise as Ganymede to test Orlando's love.
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Carrington 1995   R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christopher Hampton
Cast: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Rufus Sewell, Samuel West, Penelope Wilton, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Northam, Peter Blythe
Dora Carrington was a British painter in the early 20th century who discovered her platonic soul mate in a homosexual male, Lytton Strachey. Over her lifetime, Carrington married and had affairs, but she always managed to come back to Strachey during a time when their lifestyles, as members of England's Bloomsbury Group, were not condoned by society.
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The Intended 2002  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kristian Levring
Cast: Janet McTeer, Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Tony Maudsley, JJ Feild, David Bradley, Philip Jackson, Robert Pugh, John Matthew Lau, Thomas Goh, Michael J. Langgi
Set in the Malaysian jungle in 1924, this tale involves British surveyor Hamish Winslow (JJ Feild) and fiancee Sarah (Janet McTeer) who arrive at a trading post where they encounter the head of the post, the very strong-willed Mrs. Jones (Brenda Fricker) who opposes their lifestyle. She tries bullying Hamish, but that doesn't work, and life settles down–until Mrs. Jones' high-strung son, William (Tony Maudsley) becomes interested in Sarah.
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The King Is Alive 2000 R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Dogme 4: The King Is Alive
Director: Kristian Levring
Cast: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison, Brion James, Peter Khubeke, Vusi Kunene, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Janet McTeer, Lia Williams, Chris Walker
After their bus runs out of gas in a hot North African desert, the 11 passengers come up with a unique way to pass the time: stage a performance of "King Lear." Retired actor Henry (David Bradley) assigns roles for the play that are based on the stripped-down personalities of the passengers. As the situation grows more threatening, aggressive potentials of the play's characters come into play.
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Saint-Ex 1996 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson, Janet McTeer, Katrin Cartlidge, Ken Stott, Eleanor Bron, Brid Brennan, Karl Johnson, Daniel Craig, Anna Calder-Marshall, Dominic Rowan, Aidan Cottrell Boyce, Joe Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Hewetson, Alex Kingston
This is a very good film biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the pilot who delivered the mail and still managed to author the beloved children's classic, "The Little Prince." The story centers on the relationship of Saint-Ex (Bruno Ganz) and his wife, Consuelo Carillo (Miranda Richardson) who has problems adapting to her role of an aviator's wife.
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Songcatcher 2000 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Cast: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Greg Russell Cook, Iris DeMent, Emmy Rossum, Stephanie Roth Haberle, David Patrick Kelly, E. Katherine Kerr, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Bart Hansard, Kristin Hall, Michael Harding
Dr. Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), an early 20th-century musicologist, heads for the mountains of Appalachia planning to record its music and transcribe the ballads onto sheet music. In the process, she learns about the mountain people and herself as well. A beautiful film.
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Tideland 2006 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges, Dylan Taylor, Wendy Anderson, Sally Crooks, Amy Matysio, Alden Adair, Harry Gilliam
Following her heroin-addicted mother's (Jennifer Tilly) death, city-girl Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) begins a new life with her father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), at her deceased grandmother's home in the country. But Noah also is a junkie, and soon after the move he overdoses and dies. Now Jeliza-Rose is left in a house with her father's decaying body, and she starts communicating with her four Barbie dolls' heads and her young, mentally challenged neighbor Dickens (Brendan Fletcher). They are watched over by Dickens' sister Dell (Janet McTeer), a veiled taxidermist with her own plans for Noah's carcass.
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Tumbleweeds 1999 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Cast: Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O. Sanders, Gavin O'Connor, Lois Smith, Laurel Holloman, Michael J. Pollard, Noah Emmerich, Ashley Buccille, Cody McMains, Linda Porter, Brian Tahash, Josh Carmichael, Sara Downing, Joel Polis
Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer) has run away from every person she has had a relationship with except for one person: her 12-year-old daughter, Ava (Kimberly J. Brown). As the story begins, this twosome are on the way to San Diego leaving behind Mary Jo's fourth husband. Once "settled in," Ava finds her niche, but Mary Jo is still a piece of work in progress. Janet McTeer received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Waking the Dead 2000  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Keith Gordon
Cast: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Leah Pinsent
Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup), a congressional candidate, begins to question his own sanity as he senses the presence of his ex-lover, Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly). The problem: Sarah died nine years ago.
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 Wuthering Heights 1992 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd, Jeremy Northam, Jason Riddington, Simon Ward, Robert Demeger, Dick Sullivan, Paul Geoffrey, John Woodvine, Jennifer Daniel, Janine Wood, Jonathan Firth
Emily Bronte's 18th-century story about star-crossed lovers is again brought to the screen. In this version of the romantic drama, Juliette Binoche plays Cathy, while Ralph Fiennes takes on the role of Heathcliff. As an orphan, Heathcliff was raised by the Earnshaw family, and when Hendley Earnshaw (Jeremy Northam) takes over Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is forced to work in the stables. Meanwhile, Hendley's sister Cathy and Heathcliff fall in love, but Cathy opts for wealth over love and marries Edgar Linton (Simon Shepherd). Cathy dies in childbirth. Eighteen years later, Cathy's daughter Catherine (also played by Juliette Binoche) meets Heathclliff who forces her to marry his son Linton (Jonathan Firth) so that he will have avenged his enemies by controlling the estate. But, Cathy's ghost appears, Heathcliff dies, and, once again, even death cannot part those ill-fated lovers.
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| 1. As You Like It (2006)
2. Carrington (1995)
3. The Intended (2002)
4. The King Is Alive (2000)
aka: Dogme 4: The King Is Alive
5. Saint-Ex (1996)
6. Songcatcher (2000)
7. Tideland (2006)
8. Tumbleweeds (1999)
9. Velvet Goldmine (1998)
10. Waking the Dead (2000)
11. Wuthering Heights (1992)
aka: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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