Confetti 2006  R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Debbie Isitt
Cast: Martin Freeman, Jessica Hynes, Stephen Mangan, Meredith MacNeill, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman, Vincent Franklin, Jason Watkins, Jimmy Carr, Felicity Montagu, Alison Steadman, Ron Cook, Selina Cadell, Julia Davis
In this improvised mockumentary, wedding planners Archie and Gregory (Vincent Franklin and Jason Watkins) spend 10 weeks assisting three engaged couples who vie for the prize of a new house and their picture on the cover of "Confetti" magazine. Matt and Sam (Martin Freeman and Jessica Hynes) want their ceremony to be just like a Broadway musical; Isabelle and Josef (Meredith MacNeill and Stephen Mangan) want their wedding to have a tennis theme; and nudists Joanna and Michael (Olivia Colman and Robert Webb) want no clothes worn at their ceremony. Stress abounds, and the couples create chaos as they battle to win the prize.
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 Great Expectations 1999  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Bernard Hill, Ian McDiarmid, Selina Cadell, Emma Cunniffe, Tony Curran, Gemma Gregory, David Horovitch, Clive Russell, Ifan Meredith, Lesley Sharp, Gabriel Thomson
In this BBC version of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," Ioan Gruffudd takes on the role of working-class Pip who dreams of rising to "gentleman" status in order to win the love of the elusive Estella (Gemma Gregory as young Estella and Justine Waddell as older Estella) who has been taught by the bitter Miss Haversham (Charlotte Rampling) to have higher expectations than those of Pip. Orphaned Pip (Gabriel Thomson as young Pip) has been raised by blacksmith Joe Gargery (Clive Russell) and his wife (Lesley Sharp). As a child, Pip saves the life of convict Matwitch (Bernard Hill), and now Pip finds that a mysterious benefactor has given him wealth. It turns out that the benefactor is Matwitch, and Pip is on his way to gaining his "gentleman" status in the Victorian world of the social elite.
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Not Quite Paradise 1986  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Not Quite Jerusalem
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Joanna Pacula, Sam Robards, Kevin McNally, Todd Graff, Selina Cadell, Bernard Strother, Ewan Stewart, Kate Ingram, Gary Cady, Libby Morris
A new group of Americans and Britishers arrive at a kibbutz (a communal farm), joining others from various countries. As love blossoms between one of the Americans, Mike (Sam Robards), and a local woman, Gila (Joanna Pacula), other episodes are played out on the kibbutz.
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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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| 1. Confetti (2006)
2. Great Expectations (1999)
3. Not Quite Paradise (1986)
aka: Not Quite Jerusalem
4. Snow Cake (2006)
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