Snow Cake 2006  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Evans
Cast: Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Fox, Jayne Eastwood, Emily Hampshire, James Allodi, Callum Keith Rennie, Mark McKinney, Selina Cadell, Julie Stewart, Jackie Brown, Nia Roberts, John Bayliss
Linda (Sigourney Weaver) is an autistic, but high-functioning woman whose personality conflicts with that of Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman) when he visits her to return her deceased daughter's personal effects. A comedy of manners ensues as an uneasy friendship forms between these two very different people.
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Solomon and Gaenor 1999 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Paul Morrison
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue Jones-Davies, William Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones, Maureen Lipman, David Horovitch, Bethan Ellis Own, Adam Jenkins, Cyril Shaps
Set in Wales during 1911, this is the story of an illicit romance involving a young Jew, Solomon (Ioan Gruffudd), and a Protestant, Gaenor (Nia Roberts), whose affair leads to pregnancy. At a time when anti-Jewish riots were commonplace, this mixed-ethnic pairing leads to nothing but problems. This film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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The Theory of Flight 1998  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Jones, Holly Aird, Ray Stevenson, Sue Jones-Davies, Nia Roberts, Jill James, Ruth Jones, Gwenyth Petty
While doing community service as his sentence for jumping from a London skyscraper (he is obsessed with flying), Richard is assigned to wheelchair-confined Jane (Helena Bonham Carter). Jane's degenerative motor-neuron disease makes speech difficult and, at first, the two do not get along. But, they are stuck with each other and soon form a bond. When Jane confides that she wants a meaningful sexual relationship before she dies, Richard helps find a mate.
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| 1. Snow Cake (2006)
2. Solomon and Gaenor (1999)
3. The Theory of Flight (1998)
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