Showing posts with label Year: 1996. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 1996. Show all posts

Secrets & Lies (1996)

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Absolutely masterful drama directed by Mike Leigh. The members of a family find out things about each other that transform their lives as se...

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

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Barbra Streisand directs and stars as a middle-aged academic, Rose, who begins a relationship with a fellow professor (Jeff Bridges). Both a...

Beautiful Girls (1996)

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Drama directed by Ted Demme and written by Scott Rosenberg.  It’s a sort of grown-up “ Brat Pack ” drama following a group of friends based ...

Jude (1996)

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Michael Winterbottom’s skilful adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure is a powerful and moving saga.  Christopher Eccleston plays Ju...

Marvin's Room (1996)

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Touching family drama.  Two estranged sisters (Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep) get to know each other in the context of an elderly, unwell fa...

Broken Arrow (1996)

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Brilliantly silly action thriller directed by John Woo.  John Travolta and Christian Slater are military pilots testing a stealth plane arme...

Michael Collins (1996)

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Biopic of Michael Collins (played by Liam Neeson), the revolutionary Irishman who leads a guerilla force against the UK during the Irish War...

Fly Away Home (1996)

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Heartwarming drama. A girl (Anna Paquin) loses her mother in a car crash and goes to live with her inventor father (Jeff Daniels) in rural C...

One Fine Day (1996)

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Rom-com about two single-parent New Yorkers.  Journalist Jack (George Clooney) meets architect Melanie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and – across a he...

Ransom (1996)

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Thriller in which Mel Gibson and Rene Russo star as the wealthy parents of a boy kidnapped by Gary Sinise and his gang. Rather than pay th...

Brassed Off (1996)

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The Yorkshire mining community of Grimley is threatened when the mine risks closure. Gloria Mullins (Tara Fitzgerald) is sent there to asses...

Shine (1996)

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Moving biographical drama about the life of pianist David Helfgott.  A child prodigy, he struggles with an abusive, controlling father and m...

Sleepers (1996)

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Four friends growing up in New York in the 1960s end up in a youth detention centre, where they are brutalised by the staff. We then meet t...

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

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Modernisation of the Shakespeare play starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the main roles. They are both excellent and their lov...

Emma (1996)

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Disappointing version of the Jane Austen novel starring Gwyneth Paltrow as the meddling girl who manipulates the affairs of those around h...