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BLOODY KIDS
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Crime is a slippery slope in this gritty British TV movie directed by Stephen Frears. Richard Thomas and Gary Holton play two Essex teens who set out on a night of boozing, bird-dogging, and vandalism, but lose control as their petty crimes escalate into murder. With Derrick O'Connor. Nominated for a BAFTA TV Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1979---91 mins.
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CHERI (2009)
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Director Stephen Frears, leading lady Michelle Pfeiffer, and screenwriter Christopher Hampton returns to the fertile, sharp-tongued ground they tilled in Dangerous Liasons. Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates play aging courtesans in turn of the century France in this adaptation of a couple Colette novels. Bates, who's retired, wants Pfeiffer to teach her spoiled kid Cheri (Rupert Friend) about women, but problems arise when the pair fall madly in love.
Stephen Frears---Great Britain---2009---93 mins.
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DANGEROUS LIAISONS
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Nominated for seven Academy Awards, the hottest love affair of 1782 is notable for its sense of style and decor, and strong performances from Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michele Pfeiffer. A couple of nasty members of 18th century nobility enjoy manipulating the lives and loves of those around them through all kinds of mean-spiritedness. There are three versions of this story available, including Valmont and Liaisons Dangereuses. Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1989---120 mins.
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GRIFTERS
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Jim Thompson's novel of love, money and betrayal stars John Cusack as a master of the short con. He must gamble on trusting his corrupted mother or putting his faith in a greedy girlfriend who plays for bigger stakes. Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening were nominated for Oscars for their work, as was director Stephen Frears and scriptwriter Donald E. Westlake. Filmed in the seedier sections of Los Angeles, this is a tough, terrific modern film noir. Produced by Martin Scorsese, who also provides the opening narration. Stephen Frears---USA---1990---114 mins.
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HERO (HOFFMAN)
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An entertaining movie with equal doses of Preston Sturges and Frank Capra. The story concerns an itinerant, small-time thief (Dustin Hoffman) who saves a group of passengers after a plane crash-lands and watches an imposter (Andy Garcia) receive the credit. Geena Davis plays a sharp, ambitious television journalist trying to sort out the confusion. Stephen Frears---USA---1992---116 mins.
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HIGH FIDELITY (CUSACK)
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Nick Hornby's witty, insightful book about a music-obsessed record store owner looking for love in London is transplanted to Chicago for this energetic comedy. John Cusack plays the main character, who can't seem to adjust to adulthood and takes refuge in memories that he corresponds to his meticulously organized record collection. Jack Black steals the film as a manic, demanding employee at Cusack's shop. With Lisa Bonet, Iben Hjejle, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor and Tim Robbins in a hilarious turn as one of Cusack's romantic rivals. "...unforced, whimsical, quirky...movies this wry and likable hardly ever get made" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Stephen Frears---USA---2000---114 mins.
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HIT, THE (FREARS)
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John Hurt, Terence Stamp, and Tim Roth star in this "rollicking black comedy" (Newsweek) from the director of The Grifters and My Beautiful Laundrette. A hitman and his sidekick transport a former gangster in hidi ng to Paris, where he is supposed to be knocked off for turning stool pigeon. But the road turns out to be a bumpy one indeed. Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1984---98 mins.
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LIAM
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The director of My Beautiful Laundrette, The Grifters and High Fidelity transports the viewer back to Liverpool of the 1930s in this emotionally charged drama about a family desperately struggling with poverty . The story is largely seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Liam, but the boy's father (played to perfection by Ian Hart) becomes a focal point as he falls to the lure of fascism. "Frears directs it beautifully...this is one of his most richly drawn, deeply felt films" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Stephen Frears---Great Britain---2001---90 mins.
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LOVING WALTER
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Sir Ian McKellen stars as a kind-hearted, mentally challenged man facing life's difficulties in Stephen Frears' realistic and gritty adaptation of David Cook's award-winning novel. Walter (McKellen) has been fighting his entire life to overcome his illness, despite his family's insensitivity. When his parents die, though, Walter faces even more challenges as he adapts to life in an decrepit institution. With Sarah Miles. Originally released as Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1986---128 mins.
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MARY REILLY
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Julia Roberts and John Malkovich star in this adaptation of the Jekyll and Hyde story, told from a new perspective. Roberts portrays Mary Reilly, the gentle doctor's maid, who witnesses all the horrors and contradictions of his work, and as a result, experiences all the terror firsthand. The first-rate production design and cinematography add considerable atmosphere. Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1996---108 mins.
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MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS
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Dame Judy Dench earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in this witty costume drama, based on real events. Dench stars as Laura Henderson, a wealthy widow in 1930s England who decides to rejuvenate the decrepit Windmill Theatre in London's West End. Henderson enlists veteran producer Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to aid her in her venture, and soon the Windmill is putting on wildly successful taboo-bursting vaudeville revues, which rankle the cultural establishment. Directed by Stephen Frears, who "seems constitutionally incapable of making an uninteresting movie" (Gene Seymour, Newsday). Stephen Frears---Great Britain---2005---103 mins.
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MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE
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The breakthrough film for director Stephen Frears and novelist/filmmaker Hanif Kureishi, about the relationship between a Pakistani innocent (Saeed Jaffrey) and the punk leader (Daniel Day-Lewis) of a neo-Nazi movement in East London. The first-rate cast includes Roshan Seth, Derrick Branche and Shirley Anne Field. Nominated for a best original screenplay Academy Award. "A startingly fresh movie" (Pauline Kael). Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1985---93 mins.
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PRICK UP YOUR EARS
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The sexual life and personal relationships of English playwright Joe Orton are unflinchingly presented in this no holds barred dramatic account. Gary Oldman is Orton and Alfred Molina is the long time lover who murdered him in 1967. Vanessa Redgrave is the agent and Wallace Shawn is the biographer trying to find the answers to a talented and troubled man. Stephen Frears---Great Britain---1987---108 mins.
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QUEEN, THE (FREARS)
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Festival juries, critics, and awards shows treated Helen Mirren with such reverence for her nuanced performance of Elizabeth II, it's almost as if she was the queen.
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SNAPPER, THE (FREARS)
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Stephen Frears' small-town comedy stars Tina Kellegher as the oldest daughter of a close-knit family, who gets pregnant and refuses to name the father.
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TAMARA DREWE
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For this farce set in the British countryside, Stephen Frears adapts Posy Simmonds' graphic novel that was itself an update of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Transposed from the Victorian era to the internet age, the titular heroine (played by Gemma Arterton) returns from her London web columnist niche to the bucolic village of her youth, where all the men--young and unhappily married alike--fawn over her, and the girls gossip about her celebrity and suspected nose job. "A jolly comedy" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). With Roger Allam, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, and Tamsin Greig.
Stephen Frears---Great Britain---2010---111 mins.
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