The delirious sight of Meryl Streep leading a river of multigenerational women singing "Dancing Queen" is one of the high points of Mamma Mia!, the musical built around the songs of the hugely popular pop group ABBA. The plot sets in motion when Sophie (Amanda Seyfried, Mean Girls), daughter of Donna (Streep), sends a letter to three men, inviting them to her wedding--because after ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Julie WaltersDirected By: Phyllida Lloyd
The delirious sight of Meryl Streep leading a river of multigenerational women singing "Dancing Queen" is one of the high points of Mamma Mia!, the musical built around the songs of the hugely popular pop group ABBA. The plot sets in motion when Sophie (Amanda Seyfried, Mean Girls), daughter of Donna (Streep), sends a letter to three men, inviting them to her wedding--because ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Julie Walters, Stellan Skarsgaard, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski, Amanda SeyfriedDirected By: Phyllida Lloyd
To some extent, the team behind the revival of St. Trinian's were on a bit of a hiding to nothing. The old films, contextualised by a far different age, were knockabout, energetic, yet innocent comedies about the antics of a boisterous girls' school and its inhabitants. Surprisingly though, the remake--again inspired by the Ronald Searle cartoons--manages to sidestep the bulk of the ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Russell Brand, Tallulah RileyDirected By: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
In spite of the quality of the more recent Keira Knightley-starring big-screen interpretation, it's the mid-90s BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice that's still regarding by many as the definitive telling of Jane Austen's classic. Featuring, as many swooning admirers will already know, Colin Firth in a career-topping performance as Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice is the ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor
With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the London Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: he just wants to be loved, and he'll ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Laura LinneyDirected By: Richard Curtis
Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Renee Zellweger, Honor Blackman, Embeth Davidtz, Colin Firth, Hugh GrantDirected By: Sharon Maguire
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd, John HannahDirected By: Doug Lefler
Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures VideoStarring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim BroadbentDirected By: Beeban Kidron
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Ralph Fiennes, Julian Wadham, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott ThomasDirected By: Anthony Minghella
