Nuts in May 1976  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O'Donnell, Sheila Kelley, Stephen Bill, Richenda Carey, Eric Allan, Matthew Guinness, Richard Ireson, Sally Watts
A middle-class couple–Keith (Roger Sloman) and Candice Marie (Alison Steadman)–arrive at a campground prepared to tent camp and follow (to a fault) the guidebook's suggestions for discovering the countryside. Neighboring campers, however, prove to be more than small distractions to Keith's meticulously planned vacation.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970  G, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Caspar Wrede
Cast: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjonberg, James Maxwell, Alfred Burke, Eric Thompson, John Cording, Matthew Guinness, Alf Malland, Caspar Wrede
Adapted from Alexander Sholzhenitsyn's novel about his experiences as a Siberian labor-camp prisoner, this film version only hits the surface of what one endures during 10 years wasted in Stalin's Gulag.
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Wetherby 1985 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: David Hare
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates, Tim McInnerny, Suzanna Hamilton, Tom Wilkinson, Stuart Wilson, Paula Tilbrook, Joely Richardson, Christopher Fulford, Howard Crossley, Mike Kelly, Robert Hines, Matthew Guinness
Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is a schoolteacher in the small Yorkshire town of Wetherby. She leads a quiet life and has never accepted the death of her boyfriend many years ago. She has a small dinner party for two couples who are friends. There is also another dinner guest who was uninvited, but all assumed that he was with one of the couples or with Jean. The next day, the stranger comes to Jean's house, and during a visit with her he puts a gun in his mouth and kills himself. The resulting investigation of who he was and what was meant by the events makes for good mystery and drama. As the party of the prior evening is again shown, the viewer sees the dinner in a completely different way.
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| 1. Nuts in May (1976)
2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
3. Wetherby (1985)
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