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This Nicholas Nickleby is not one of Hollywood's condensed versions, it's the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic eight-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the life and times of the eponymous school-teacher. The 1982 production (originally staged in two parts) won worldwide acclaim and was such a success that Britain's then-newest TV station, Channel 4, launched a joint venture with independent ...

Manufacturer: Metrodome Distribution
Starring: Alun Armstrong, Christopher Benjamin, Suzanne Bertish, Sharon Bower, Janet Dale
Directed By: Jim Goddard, John Caird, Trevor Nunn

Disney couldn't resist the temptation to remake 1961's popular comedy The Absent Minded Professor, so they cast Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard (a role vaguely related to the character originated by Fred MacMurray), and the result is a comedy that, frankly, doesn't fully deserve its modest success. It's admittedly clever to a point, and certainly the digitally flubberised ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond J. Barry, Clancy Brown
Directed By: Les Mayfield

Manufacturer: Playback
Starring: Nicholas Selby, David Garfield (II), John Blythe, Tilly Tremayne, Eric Dodson
Directed By: Roger Jenkins, Christopher Barry (III), Kenneth Ives, Philip Dudley

Manufacturer: Fremantle
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Helena Gloag
Directed By: Jack Couffer

Manufacturer: Lionsgate
Starring: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Dennis Christopher, April Grace

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam
Directed By: Martin Rosen

Manufacturer: Network
Starring: Richard O'Sullivan, Christopher Benjamin, Michael Deeks
Directed By: Gerry Poulson;James Allen

Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Starring: Bob Peck, Janet McTeer, Geraldine Somerville, Brendan P. Healy, Jean Anderson
Directed By: Norman Stone

An early example of the techno-thriller, The Anderson Tapes--sharply directed by Sidney Lumet from the novel by Lawrence Sanders--follows just-out-of-stir Duke Anderson (a balding Sean Connery) as he plots the heist of an entire New York apartment building, enlisting a crew that includes Martin Balsam as a vintage 1971 gay stereotype and a very young Christopher Walken in perhaps the first ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King
Directed By: Sidney Lumet

Coincidence throws Mij the otter and Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) the computer worker together on a busy London street in Ring of Bright Water. What transpires from this chance meeting is an epiphany that leads to the complete upheaval of Graham's life. Evicted from his city flat thanks to the antics of his newly acquired, mischievous otter, Graham embarks on a train journey to the ...

Manufacturer: Prism Leisure
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Helena Gloag
Directed By: Jack Couffer