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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter
Directed By: Ang Lee

Kenneth Branagh's 1993 production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a vigorous and imaginative work, cheerful and accessible for everyone. Largely the story of Benedick (Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson)--adversaries who come to believe each is trying to woo the other--the film veers from arched wit to ironic romps, and the two leads don't mind looking a little silly at times. ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Briers
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

The Remains of the Day is one of Merchant-Ivory's most thought-provoking films. Anthony Hopkins is a model of restraint and propriety as Stevens, the butler who "knows his place"; Emma Thompson is the animated and sympathetic Miss Kenton, the housekeeper whose attraction to Stevens is doomed to disappointment. As Nazi appeaser Lord Darlington, James Fox clings to the notion of a gentleman's ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Caroline Hunt
Directed By: James Ivory

Much was written about Will Ferrell's first "dramatic role" as Harold Crick, an IRS auditor who begins hearing a voice narrating his life. But Stranger Than Fiction is hardly a drama. However, what Ferrell does--like Jim Carrey before him in The Truman Show--is handle a toned-down character with genuineness and affection: you believe he is this guy. Crick leads a lonely life filled ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Will Ferrell, Queen Latifah
Directed By: Marc Forster

If it had been written as a piece of fiction no one would have believed it, but In the Name of the Father is the true story of one of the most shocking episodes in British legal history. Dealing with the events surrounding the Guildford pub bombing in 1974 and the subsequent 15-year fight for justice, the film portrays a nation in the grip of an anti-system, desperate to find culprits at ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King, Emma Thompson
Directed By: Jim Sheridan

Tony Kushner's prize-winning play Angels in America became the defining US theatrical event of the 1990s, an astonishing mix of philosophy, politics, and vibrant gay soap opera that summed up the Reagan era for an entire generation of theatre-goers. Post-9/11 would seem to be too late for a film version--philosophy and politics don't always age well--but this 2003 HBO adaptation, ably ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright
Directed By: Mike Nichols

With hairy warts, a stern-looking unibrow and one extremely protruding buck-tooth, Nanny McPhee is a wonderfully comedic substitute for Mary Poppins in this entertaining family fantasy. By loosely adapting Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda children's books of the 1960s, Oscar-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) has also given herself the plum role of ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, Derek Jacobi, Angela Lansbury
Directed By: Kirk Jones

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Alphonsia Emmanuel
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Manufacturer: 4dvd
Starring: Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Samuel West
Directed By: James Ivory

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson