Captain Jack 1999  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Peter McDonald, Gemma Jones, Maureen Lipman, Sadie Frost, Anna Massey, David Troughton, Michele Dotrice, Patrick Malahide, Kathryn Pogson
Sea Captain Jack Armistead (Bob Hoskins) doesn't think that his hero, Captain Scoresby, has been adequately honored for his trip from northern England to the Arctic waters in 1791. So he decides to retrace the route in his un-seaworthy (and condemned) ship. He gathers a motley crew consisting of two elderly sisters and an Australian hitchhiker–as well as a stowaway–and sets out on the voyage. Meanwhile, authorities and journalists are hot on his tail.
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 Dracula 1992   R, 130 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Romance
aka: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell, Sadie Frost, Tom Waits, Jay Robinson, Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu, Florina Kendrick, I.M. Gobson, Laurie Franks
This film won Academy Awards for Best Sound Effects, Costume Design, and Makeup. Dracula (Gary Oldman) is a tragic figure who journeys to find his reincarnated lover (Winona Ryder) while evading Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) and his group of vampire hunters.
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Final Cut 1998  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Cast: Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, John Beckett, Holly Davidson, William Scully, Mark Burdis, Perry Benson, Lisa Marsh, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Jude (Jude Law) is dead, and his friends have been invited to watch a video on which he was working up to the time of his death. The guests are shocked to find out that the film documents the "performances"–taken with hidden cameras–of each of the friends, showing them at their absolute worst. Drugs, infidelity, lurid actions, and more were filmed, ending with scenes of Jude making love with Lisa (Lisa Marsh), the wife of Ray (Ray Winstone)–resulting in Ray killing Jude. Really over the top.
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Love, Honour and Obey 2000 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Cast: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen, Rhys Ifans, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) talks his boyhood pal, Jude (Jude Law), into getting him a job working for Jude's gangster-boss uncle, Ray (Ray Burdis), only to find that he is quickly bored with the new lifestyle. To liven things up, Jonny rips off a rival gang, and the ensuing gang war shifts into high gear.
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Presence of Mind 1999 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonio Aloy
Cast: Sadie Frost, Lauren Bacall, Harvey Keitel, Nilo Mur, Agustin Villaronga, Dayna Danika, Jack Taylor, Ella Jones, Carmen Pons, Juana Ginzo
Henry James' classic tale "The Turn of the Screw" is again brought to the screen with this production shot in Spain. The guardian (Harvey Keitel) of two children hires a young woman (Sadie Frost) as a governess. The children prove to be difficult, and the housekeeper (Lauren Bacall), who really runs the place, is not pleasant to get along with. It soon becomes evident that the house holds a dark secret. Good performances by Keitel and Bacall.
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story 1995 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Brand
Cast: William Baldwin, John Leguizamo, Sadie Frost, Erika Eleniak, Michael Lerner, Joan Plowright, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mike Starr, Julio Oscar Mechoso
Pastry baker Sergio Cuccio (John Leguizamo) accepts money in return for confessing to arson in the fire at his pastry shop. No sooner does he confess, than others also falsely confess, and the real arsonist, Garet Lumpke (William Baldwin) finds himself out in the cold; he had set the fire to impress Stephanie (Erika Eleniak).
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Shopping 1994 R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Fraser James, Sean Bean, Marianne Faithfull, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Newman, Lee Whitlock, Eamonn Walker, Ralph Ineson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Constantinou, Tilly Vosburgh, Melanie Hill
Ex-con Billy (Jude Law), with girlfriend Jo (Sadie Frost) along for the ride, gets his kicks out of stealing cars then ramming them into store windows, stealing until the police arrive, then riding off at high speed with the police in pursuit. But the town's drug lord, Tommy (Sean Pertwee), isn't happy with the infringement of his territory, and a deadly car race begins.
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Splitting Heirs 1993 PG-13, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Young
Cast: Rick Moranis, Eric Idle, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Sadie Frost, Stratford Johns, Brenda Bruce, William Franklyn, Richard Huw, Charu Bala Chokshi, Jeremy Clyde, Eric Sykes, Bridget McConnell, Bill Stewart
As an infant, Tommy (Eric Idle) was left behind when his mother, Duchess Lucinda (Barbara Hershey), absent-mindedly left him in a restaurant. Tommy was subsequently raised by Pakistanis, and Henry (Rick Moranis) was mistakenly replaced as Tommy in his family. Now, his father has died, and Tommy wants his inheritance–the claim includes ruling an aristocracy. Tommy plots to kill Henry and works with lawyer Raoul P. Shadgrind (John Cleese) to regain his inheritance. In the process, Tommy and Henry become friends, and everyone lives happily ever after.
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| 1. Captain Jack (1999)
2. Dracula (1992)
aka: Bram Stoker's Dracula
3. Final Cut (1998)
4. Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
5. Presence of Mind (1999)
6. A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
7. Shopping (1994)
8. Splitting Heirs (1993)
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