Absolute Beginners 1986  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Julien Temple
Cast: Patsy Kensit, Eddie O'Connell, David Bowie, James Fox, Ray Davies, Mandy Rice-Davies, Steven Berkoff, Bruce Payne, Anita Morris, Paul Rhys
This musical is based on Colin MacInnes' popular novel and revolves around young Colin's efforts to get into London's pop world during the late 1950s.
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Angels and Insects 1995  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Haas
Cast: Jeremy Kemp, Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Douglas Henshall, Saskia Wickham, Chris Larkin, Annette Badland, Anna Massey, Lindsay Thomas
This film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia" involves an insect collector (Mark Rylance) whose household contains more than a few similarities to the insect world he collects, and both reflect the decadent world of Victorian England in which they reside.
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Blame It on the Bellboy 1992 PG-13, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Herman
Cast: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit, Alison Steadman, Penelope Wilton, Bronson Pinchot, Jim Carter, Alex Norton, John Grillo, Andrew Bailey
Three men with similar-sounding last names check into a Venice hotel. Melvyn Orton (Dudley Moore) is a real estate agent with a deal to be made; Mike Lawton (Bryan Brown) is a hit man with a job to perform; and Maurice Horton (Richard Griffiths) has a rendezvous set up by a dating service. Their missions get swapped due to a bellboy (Bronson Pinchot) who has poor English language skills. Weak farce.
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Chicago Joe and the Showgirl 1990 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Patsy Kensit, Keith Allen, Liz Fraser, Alexandra Pigg, Ralph Nossek, Colin Bruce, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Harry Fowler, John Lahr, Angela Morant
Based on an actual murder case in 1944 Great Britain called "The Cleft Chin Murder Case," this is the tale of U.S. Army deserter Karl (Kiefer Sutherland) and stripper Betty (Emily Lloyd) who meet and embark on a crime spree, which eventually escalates to murder.
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Full Eclipse 1993 R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Anthony Hickox
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Payne, Jason Beghe, John Verea, Anthony John Denison, Paula Marshall, Dean Norris, Scott Paulin, Victoria Rowell
Originally shown on HBO and later released on video and DVD with additional gore, this action/horror film involves a special team of policemen who just happen to be werewolves. That ought to cut the L.A. crime rate.
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Grace of My Heart 1996  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, Matt Dillon, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Davison, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Chris Isaak
This is the story of Edna Buxton (Illeana Douglas) who wants to be a singer but becomes a songwriter instead and changes her name to Denise Waverly in the process. Her move from New York to Malibu and the people in the music business she meets along the way make for an interesting story.
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 Great Expectations 1981  TV, 300 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Amyes
Cast: Gerry Sundquist, Derek Francis, Joan Hickson, Patsy Kensit, Colin Jeavons, Stratford Johns, Phillip Joseph, Graham McGrath, Tim Munro, John Stratton, Christine Absalom, Sarah-Jane Varley
This offering from the BBC TV miniseries focuses on the life and times of humble Pip (Graham McGrath as young Pip and Gerry Sundquist as older Pip) who dreams of grandeur and finds when he grows up that an unknown benefactor (Stratford Johns) has bestowed a fortune on him enabling him to become a gentleman in the Victorian world of the social elite.
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 The Great Gatsby 1974 PG, 146 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Sam Waterston, Howard Da Silva, Edward Herrmann, Patsy Kensit, Scott Wilson, Lois Chiles
In this version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Robert Redford takes on the role of Jay Gatsby who loves Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) and believes that, if he is successful enough in business, Daisy will reciprocate his love.
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Hanover Street 1979 PG, 109 min.
Genre: Action / Adventue / Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur, Michael Sacks, Patsy Kensit, Max Wall, Shane Rimmer, Keith Buckley, Sherrie Hewson, Cindy O'Callaghan, Di Trevis, Keith Alexander, Suzanne Bertish
While serving as an American bomber pilot during World War II, David Halloran (Harrison Ford) is in England where he meets and falls in love with Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down) during an air raid. Margaret keeps the fact that she is married a secret. Later, David goes on a mission with British secret service agent Paul (Christopher Plummer)–who just happens to be Margaret's husband. After their plane is shot down over France, David realizes that Paul's wife is Margaret, but they must work together if they are going to find the means for survival.
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Janice Beard: 45 WPM 1999 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clare Kilner
Cast: Eileen Walsh, Patsy Kensit, Rhys Ifans, Sandra Voe, David O'Hara, Frances Gray, Zita Sattar, Amelia Curtis, Mossie Smith, Sarah McVicar
Janice Beard (Eileen Walsh) has used her active imagination to dream up tall tales, which she hoped would lure her agoraphobic mother (Sandra Voe) to venture outside their home. That ploy failed, and now Janice has moved out and found a job with an auto motor firm where her stories may again be employed to ward off an espionage crisis at work.
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Kill Cruise 1990 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Keglevic
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley, Franz Buchrieser, Grazyna Szapolowska, Mario Stock, Carmel S. Aquilina, Manuel Cauchi, John Suda, Elton Mamo, John Ciantar
It's been months since Skipper's (Jurgen Prochnow) best friend was lost overboard from his boat off Gibraltar, and Skipper's wife left him. So, Skipper visits the local bar nightly, drunkenly telling of his troubles. When two bar employees, Sue and Lou (Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley), talk him into sailing them to the Caribbean, he accepts. But the trip will be more than he bargained for.
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The Last Don II 1998  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Mario Puzo's The Last Don II
Director: Graeme Clifford
Cast: Jason Gedrick, Patsy Kensit, Kirstie Alley, David Marciano, James Wilder, Jason Isaacs, George Jenesky, Robert Wuhl, Joe Mantegna, Danny Aiello
The patriarch of the family from "The Last Don" (Aiello) dies and the rival families try to take advantage of the situation in this poor sequel, which was also originally a TV miniseries.
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 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor, Mark Rolston, Darlene Love, Mary Ellen Trainor, Traci Wolfe, Steve Kahan, Jenette Goldstein, Dean Norris, Nestor Serrano, Grand L. Bush
This time around, our two cops Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh (Mel Gibson and Danny Glover) zero in on dishonest diplomats from South Africa. This sequel has the same high intensity action as the original and has added Joe Pesci as the character who is being "protected" by the two. Pesci is great as the fast-talking accountant who thinks he has a foolproof scheme of his own.
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Speedway Junky 1999 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nickolas Perry
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Jordan Brower, Daryl Hannah, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patsy Kensit, Tiffani Thiessen, Warren G., Justin Urich, Erik Alexander Gavica, Brian Stark
Johnny (Jesse Bradford) runs away from this military-father's North Carolina home and heads to Las Vegas to make it on the auto racing circuit. The naive Johnny is soon taken advantage of and loses his scant funds. Eric (Jordan Brower), a gay man who falls for Johnny, takes him under his wing, and the growing up begins.
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Things Behind the Sun 2001  R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Alison Folland, Elizabeth Pena, Rosanna Arquette, Patsy Kensit, CCH Pounder, Eric Stoltz, Bill Cordell
Hard-drinking and hard-living Sherry (Kim Dickens) is an up-and-coming singer with a current hit song about rape–a song that reflects her despair over being raped as a child. Each year she gets drunk on the same lawn on the same day at the rape scene. Meanwhile, Owen (Gabriel Mann), who writes for a music magazine, is sent to get a story on Sherry. Owen knows much about her past, having been involved in the rape incident by his older brother, and must face up to his old demons. A powerful story based on Director Anders' rape at a young age.
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The Turn of the Screw 1992 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rusty Lemorande
Cast: Patsy Kensit, Stephane Audran, Julian Sands, Marianne Faithfull, Bryony Brind, Joseph England, Thomas Kryger, Doreen Mantle, Peter Whitman, Mickey Monroe
Henry James' classic novel is updated to the 1960s in this adaptation. Jenny (Patsy Kensit) is hired to be a nanny for two children who live in a large, old mansion. When it appears that the children are possessed by evil spirits, Jenny tries to come to the rescue.
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| 1. Absolute Beginners (1986)
2. Angels and Insects (1995)
3. Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
4. The Blue Bird (1976)
5. Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)
6. Full Eclipse (1993)
7. Grace of My Heart (1996)
8. Great Expectations (1981)
9. The Great Gatsby (1974)
10. Hanover Street (1979)
11. Janice Beard: 45 WPM (1999)
12. Kill Cruise (1990)
13. The Last Don II (1998)
aka: Mario Puzo's The Last Don II
14. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
15. Speedway Junky (1999)
16. Things Behind the Sun (2001)
17. The Turn of the Screw (1992)
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