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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
Though they don't look much alike, Annette Bening plays a fifty-something Gloria Grahame by speaking in a higher register, the breathier, sexier voice that made her a star in The Grifters. (That's a role that Grahame could easily have played at some point.) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is based on the true final chapter of Grahame's story; she was amazing in films like It's a Wonderful Life, In a Lonely Place, The Bad and the Beautiful, and The Big Heat, sensual and dangerous and wise, but then the good roles simply dried up. In the late 1970s, she went to Liverpool to perform on stage and met and fell in love with the much younger Peter Turner; Turner wrote a book about their time together, which is the basis for this film. Jamie Bell plays Peter, and, miraculously, the two create a tender chemistry onscreen. The movie isn't too concerned with age differences or hitting biographical highlights. Rather, it tries to get at the heart of how these two connected. It's lovely, and unexpectedly romantic. It's also touching how Peter's family, especially his mum (Julie Walters), befriend and care about Gloria as a person. It was directed by Paul McGuigan, who mostly specializes in crime films and TV shows; this is his gentlest work. read more...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
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With: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Granham, Jodie McNee, Stephen Brookes, Vanessa Rdgrave, Frances Barber
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Written by: Matt Greenhalgh, based on a book by Peter Turner
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Directed by: Paul McGuigan
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MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexual content and brief nudity
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Running Time: 105 minutes
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Release Date: 12/28/2017
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With: Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Glenn Close, Eric Stoltz, Frank Langella, Lambert Wilson
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Written by: Victor Levin
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Directed by: Victor Levin
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MPAA Rating: R for some sexual material
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Running Time: 97 minutes
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Release Date: 04/09/2015
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With: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Joe Anderson, Lucy Cohu, Laurence Fox, Ian Richardson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Leo Bill, Jessica Ashworth, Eleanor Methven, Michael James Ford, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Elaine Murphy
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Written by: Kevin Hood, Sarah Williams
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Directed by: Julian Jarrold
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MPAA Rating: PG for brief nudity and mild language
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Running Time: 120 minutes
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Release Date: 03/01/2007
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Elegy (2008)
The Spanish-born Isabel Coixet has done something that must have seemed impossible. First, she made a very good disease-of-the-week cancer movie with My Life Without Me (2003). Then she made a second very good disease-of-the-week cancer movie with her new Elegy. And third, she successfully adapted it from a Philip Roth novel. Roth is widely considered one of America's greatest living novelists -- if not the greatest -- and his novels are exceedingly difficult to adapt to the screen. I haven't read Roth's 2001 novel The Dying Animal, but Coixet and her screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (who also adapted 2003's The Human Stain) seem to have stuck to the essence, rather than the letter, of the novel. It flows like a movie. read more...
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With: Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Harry
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Written by: Nicholas Meyer, based on a novel by Philip Roth
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Directed by: Isabel Coixet
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MPAA Rating: R for sexuality, nudity and language
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Running Time: 108 minutes
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Release Date: 02/09/2008
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Great Expectations (1998)
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With: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Josh Mostel, Kim Dickens, Nell Campbell, Gabriel Mann, Jeremy James Kissner, Raquel Beaudene
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Written by: Mitch Glazer, based on a novel by Charles Dickens
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Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
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MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexuality
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Running Time: 111 minutes
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Release Date: 01/29/1998
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