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Joan Plowright - 10 Titles Found
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The Entertainer
(1960) [PG]
Career first. Everything else second. According to vaudevillian Archie Rice (an Oscar nominated Laurence Olivier), the show must go on - even if it means stringing along his fellow performers, exploiting the hopes and money of a starlet and neglecting his own family. This is Archie's world, but... More
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Britannia Hospital
(1982) [M]
A spectacular farce set in an old hospital that alarmingly resembles Britain at its most chaotic. Everything starts to go wrong when the medical administrators are faced with a threatened strike, angry scenes, and a Royal visit. Third instalment in Lindsay Anderson's "Mick Travers" trilogy with... More
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Enchanted April
(1992) [G]
Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals, and re-examine their relationships in a sisterly fashion. More
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Widows Peak
(1993) [PG]
Edwina (Natasha Richardson) has moved into the neighbourhood known as Widow's Peak, so called due to the prevalent marital status of the residents. The residents are all curious about their new neighbour, including Mrs Counihan (Joan Plowright), the resident's leader, whose son is busy wooing... More
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Equus
(1977) [R]
Sidney Lumet's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play erupts on the screen with the same power and passion as the stage original. Richard Burton gives one of his best performances ever in this elegant and provocative tale of myth and madness. What would drive Alan... More
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Drowning By Numbers
(1988) [M]
3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy, and so begins the game. Drowning By Numbers is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet... More
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Tea With Mussolini
(1999) [PG]
Florence, 1934. A diverse group of cultured ladies meet for tea each afternoon: Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith), widow of the British Ambassador to Italy, Arabella (Judi Dench), an artist and singer, Georgie (Lily Tomlin), the exuberant American Archaeologist, and the brash and uninhibited Elsa... More
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Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont
(2005) [PG]
Dan Ireland's latest film is the comedy drama, Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont, based on the best selling novel of the same name, by the late, celebrated English author, Elizabeth Taylor, for Cineville and Picture Entertainment. The story centers around an elegant elderly lady (Mrs Palfrey) who,... More
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A Pin for the Butterfly
(1994) [M]
This complex political drama zeroes in on the life of a small bourgeois family living in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. It is set in the 50's. The family is falling apart from the pressure to think along party lines, even in private. The mere mention of the West could result in prison, or worse.... More
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
(2008) [PG]
When the three Grace children - troubled Jared, his bookish twin Simon, and their sister Mallory - move to the ancient Spiderwick mansion, they are at first none-too-enchanted by the rundown Victorian, until they discover a Brownie, an enchanted creature, living in the walls.
They soon find a... More
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