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The work of Jane Austen is being confidently mined by filmmakers at the moment, and Persuasion is the latest to be visited. And while there are some fair issues raised about just how faithful the film is to the source material, it's nonetheless a lavish and enjoyable take on Austen's story, with much to admire. Much of the reason as to why this version of Persuasion works well ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anthony Head, Alice Krige, Tobias Menzies
Directed By: Adrian Shergold

A more upbeat movie than you might expect from Mike Leigh, yet one that finds one of Britain's finest film directors still on good form. Happy-Go-Lucky follows a primary school teacher, Poppy, played by Sally Hawkins, who has an infectious, positive manner about her. She's the shining core of the film, an upbeat, happy, yet absolutely three dimensional character. Poppy's nature is, ...

Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Andrea Riseborough, Samuel Roukin, Sinead Matthews
Directed By: Mike Leigh

Screenwriter Andrew Davies describes Tipping the Velvet, his adaptation of Sarah Waters's acclaimed novel of lesbian love, betrayal and redemption in Victorian England, as "Pride and Prejudice with dirty bits". This three-part BBC production chronicles with relish the story of Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling, the ravishing image of her mother, Diana Rigg), barely 18, and certain that ...

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Geoffrey Sax

Manufacturer: Freemantle
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Elaine Cassidy, Rupert Evans, Charles Dance, Estelle Harris
Directed By: Aisling Walsh

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Bryan Dick, Sally Hawkins, Zoe Tapper, Phil Davis
Directed By: Simon Curtis

Walt Disney studios had previously adapted Sheila Burnford's classic animal-adventure novel The Incredible Journey in 1963, and the story proves just as durable in this popular 1993 version, Homeward Bound, in which the heroic trio of animals are given voices provided by Don Ameche, Michael J Fox, and Sally Field. They don't actually speak (like the clever critters in Babe), ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Don Alder, Ed Bernard, Kevin Chevalia
Directed By: Duwayne Dunham

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Hayley Atwell, Tom Wilkinson, Ewan McGregor, Sally Hawkins, Colin Farrell
Directed By: Woody Allen

Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master-dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically ...

Manufacturer: Artificial Eye
Starring: Sally Potter, Pablo Verón, Morgane Maugran, Géraldine Maillet, Katerina Mechera
Directed By: Sally Potter

Writer-director Mike Leigh, after a brief detour into the period drama of Topsy-Turvy, returns to the lives of contemporary working-class Brits. Phil (longtime Leigh collaborator Timothy Spall, Secrets and Lies) is a quiet taxi driver whose marriage to Penny (Lesley Manville) has gone dry, though neither has quite realized it. They bicker with each other and their children and try to ...

Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Starring: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland, Ruth Sheen, Marion Bailey
Directed By: Mike Leigh

Manufacturer: Dd Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Philip Glenister, Stephen Campbell Moore, Natasha Little, Vanessa Redgrave
Directed By: Julian Farino