The Playboys
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Torvill & Dean
Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Whisky Galore
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
A Simple Twist of Fate
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
Tara Road
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
The Last Bus
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
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Gillies MacKinnon
Director
Milo O'Shea
as
Freddie
Ian McElhinney
as
Joe Cassidy
Adrian Dunbar
as
Mick
Robin Wright
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Tara Maguire
Jo Hartley
as
Betty Torvill
Sophie Robertson
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Ella
Jaime Winstone
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Janet Sawbridge
Anita Dobson
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Miss Perry
Michael Nardone
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Brown
John Sessions
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Doctor McLaren
Joan Sims
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Betty
Olympia Dukakis
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Dinah
Felicity Dean
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Patricia
Ian Holm
as
Patrick
Catherine O'Hara
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April Simon
Laura Linney
as
Nancy Lambert Newland
Eileen Grubba
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Polo Club Guest
Sarah Bolger
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Annie Lynch
Iain Glen
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Danny Lynch
Andie MacDowell
as
Marilyn Vine
Olivia Williams
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Ria Lynch
Grace Calder
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Fran
Phyllis Logan
as
Mary
Kevin Mains
as
Neil
Timothy Spall
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Tom
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