Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994  R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Romance
aka: Frankenstein
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Ian Holm, Richard Briers, John Cleese, Robert Hardy, Cherie Lunghi, Celia Imrie, Mark Hadfield, Trevyn McDowell, Gerard Horan, Joanna Roth
When 19-year-old Mary Shelley's husband, Lord Byron, challenged her to write a ghost story, she master-minded "Frankenstein" with the underlying message warning scientists to be careful of future implications from their experiments. To that end, she showed the dangers involved when Dr. Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) creates a living creature (Robert De Niro).
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tom Stoppard
Cast: Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Iain Glen, Joanna Miles, Ian Richardson, Joanna Roth, Donald Sumpter, Ljubo Zecevic, Sven Medvesck
This story was written by Tom Stoppard as a play in 1966, and now he adapts it to film in his directorial debut. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor players in "Hamlet" who wittily chat back and forth waiting for their moments to act. Although there are some good exchanges, this thing drags on–and on–and on.
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 Sliding Doors 1998 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Howitt
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Zara Turner, Douglas McFerran, Paul Brightwell, Nina Young, Virginia McKenna, Kevin McNally, Terry English, Paul Stacey, Peter Howitt, Joanna Roth, Neil Stuke
"Sliding doors" refers to those of a subway train through which Helen's (Gwyneth Paltrow) dreams offer two different futures–depending on which door she chooses. Helen has just been fired from her PR job, and one subway door opens while the other is closed. The alternatives to Sarah's future are shown as she travels down alternative paths of her life.
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| 1. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
aka: Frankenstein
2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
3. Sliding Doors (1998)
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