Dinosaurs come alive like never before in this costly computer-animated film from Disney. After a breathtaking opening (a dino egg is kidnapped), the film changes style; realistic dinosaurs are given human characteristics and voices. The kidnapped egg grows into an iguanodon named Aladar (voiced by DB Sweeney), who is raised by lemurs (shades of Tarzan) on a lush island void of other ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Alfre Woodard, Ossie DavisDirected By: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
It's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic. The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney Übervillainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh LaurieDirected By: Stephen Herek
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: John Gielgud, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Rupert FrazerDirected By: Stuart Burge, John Gorrie, Rudolph Cartier, Tony Smith
A very good adaptation of the popular series of books by Tony DiTerllizi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles is one of the few family films in recent years to seamlessly integrate magical elements with a potent drama that will strike a chord with many kids. An exceptionally talented Freddie Highmore (August Rush) plays twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, caught up in a sad shock ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Joan Plowright, Freddie Highmore, David Strathairn, Mary Louise Parker, Nick NolteDirected By: Mark Waters
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Malcolm McDowell, Leonard Rossiter, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt, Fulton MackayDirected By: Lindsay Anderson
This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the cost with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long ...
Manufacturer: SF(Fox)Starring: Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Jim Broadbent, Michael Kitchen, Joan PlowrightDirected By: Mike Newell
A film adaptation of the play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth) who, in frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry AndrewsDirected By: Sidney Lumet
The Entertainer of the title is Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist upholding a dying tradition in an English seaside against a background of the 1956 Suez Crisis. Laurence Olivier stars and is supported by a superb cast including a young Alan Bates as his son, Roger Livesey as his kindly, now retired, always more talented and popular father, and Joan Plowright as his daughter (who, ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan BatesDirected By: Tony Richardson
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Joan Plowright, Jim Caviezel
The pleasingly contrasting comic styles of Queen Latifah and Steve Martin bring some energy to Bringing Down the House, an otherwise hopelessly formulaic comedy. Martin plays Peter, an uptight lawyer too obsessed with work to spend quality time with his kids. Into his life comes Queen Latifah as Charlene, an escaped convict who threatens to wreck his relationship with a wealthy but ...
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean SmartDirected By: Adam Shankman
