Items Matching Tag 'Albert Finney'

Dennis Potter: Karaoke & Cold Lazarus (DVD Details)
KARAOKE and COLD LAZARUS were the final two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live, Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared between Channel 4 and the BBC. In a televised interview with Melvyn Bragg he said My only...

The Bourne Collection (Blu-ray Details)
Features the action-packed Jason Bourne thrillers The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Under the Volcano (DVD Details)
Under the Volcano follows the final day in the life of a self destructive British Consul, Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney, in an Oscar nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II. Withering from alcoholism, Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village, amid the 'day of the dead' festival, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife (Jacqueline Bisset). John Huston's ambitious...

Amazing Grace (UK) (DVD Details)
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

Big Fish (UK) (DVD Details)
In Tim Burton`s Big Fish, Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney play teller of tall-tales Edward Bloom. Bloom has always been spinning yarns about his oversized life as a young man, when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey from a small-town in Alabama, around the world, and back again. His mythic exploits dart from the delightful to the delirious as he weaves epic tales about giants, blizzards,...

Annie (UK) (DVD Details)
Annie is the story of a plucky, red-haired girl, who dreams of life outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant, Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire. `Daddy` Warbucks (Albert Finney), and the pair share spectacular times in the New York City of the 1930s. But Miss Hannigan and her zany, villianous colleagues are determined to...

Erin Brockovich (UK) (DVD Details)
In what many have called her best performance to date, Julia Roberts stars in this funny and moving drama, based on the story of one woman`s struggle for justice. When twice-divorced single mother Erin Brockovich finds herself with no money, no job and no prospects, she thinks her life can`t get any worse. That is until she is involved in a car accident from which her lawyer Ed Masry (Albert...

Erin Brockovich (US) (DVD Details)
A real woman. A real story. A real triumph. Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a feisty young mother who fought for justice any way she knew how. Desperate for a job to support herself and her three children, she convinces attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finney) to hire her, and promptly stumbles upon a monumental law case against a giant corporation. Now, Erin`s determined to take on this...

Simpatico (UK) (DVD Details)
It`s 20 years since best friends Vinnie and Carter went their separate ways in the aftermath of a betting scam that made them a small fortune. Now Vinnie, his money long gone, boozes away his days while his one-time buddy is a millionaire; a successful breeder of racehorses with a sprawling estate in Lexington, Kentucky. Then, out of the blue, Carter gets a call from Vinnie. He`s in trouble...