Bait 2002  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Nicholas Renton
Cast: John Hurt, Sheila Hancock, Rachael Stirling, Angeline Ball, Jonathan Firth, Nicholas Farrell, Matthew Scurfield
Jack (John Hurt) picks up Pam (Sheila Hancock) and her daughter, Stephanie (Rachael Stirling), after their car has broken down and offers them shelter in his mansion. Noting that Stephanie bears a striking resemblance to his daughter who had been murdered, Jack decides to use Stephanie as bait to bring out the killer. Made for British TV.
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Luther 2003  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eric Till
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Mathieu Carriere, Marco Hofschneider, Torben Liebrecht, Herb Andress, Jeff Caster
Joseph Fiennes stars in the role of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther who, in the early 1500s, challenged the Roman Catholic Church and ushered in the Reformation.
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Middlemarch 1994  TV, 375 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Juliet Aubrey, Douglas Hodge, Trevyn McDowell, Robert Hardy, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Hordern, Caroline Harker, Clive Russell, Jonathan Firth, Judi Dench
The BBC TV presented this miniseries based on George Eliot's classic novel, which is set in the English festival town of Middlemarch just before the Industrial Revolution during the 1830s. The lives of Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), and Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell) interweave in the midst of social and political reform.
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The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding 2005 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
aka: The Prince and Me 2
Director: Catherine Cyran
Cast: Luke Mably, Kam Heskin, Clemency Burton-Hill, Maryam d'Abo, Jonathan Firth, Jim Holt, David Fellowes, Paulina Bakarova, Joshua Rubin, Lana Likic, Daniel Cerny, David Fisher, Mirek Hrabe, Dan Brown, Andrea Miltner
In this sequel to "The Prince & Me," the impending wedding of Paige (Kam Heskin) and the Prince of Denmark, Prince Edward (Luke Mably), is placed in jeopardy when an old law is discovered that requires the heir to the throne to marry a woman of nobility or relinquish the throne. Solving the dilemma proves to be humorous.
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The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon 2008 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Catherine Cyran
Cast: Kam Heskin, Chris Geere, Jonathan Firth, Joshua Rubin, Adam Croasdell, Todd Jensen, Shelly Varod, Branco Vukovic, Kitodar Todorov, Hristo Mitzkov, Valentin Ganev
In this sequel, Prince Edward (Chris Geere) is now King of Denmark and is married to former Wisconsin farm girl Paige Morgan (Kam Heskin) who is now Queen Paige. After six months of marriage, they leave on their delayed honeymoon and fly to Belavia hoping to not be noticed. The ploy does not work, and Paige's ex-fiance Scott (Adam Croasdell) arrives on the scene disturbing their idyllic plans. Then, Edward and Page learn that their Prime Minister John Polonius (Todd Jensen) is planning to secure oil rights and to drill for oil in the enchanted forest where they are vacationing–an act that will turn the forest into a wasteland–and Edward tries to stop the plans. Meanwhile, more problems are brought about by Scott, and the not-so-romantic honeymoon culminates in a sword fight between Edward and Scott.
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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. Bait (2002)
2. Luther (2003)
3. Middlemarch (1994)
4. The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding (2005)
aka: The Prince and Me 2
5. The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon (2008)
6. Wuthering Heights (1992)
aka: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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